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And so David Bain is to be retried. I suppose it was inevitable, really, because it's not just David Bain in the dock; it's the police and the justice system as well.
The police have had to stand by and hear their case torn apart by Bain supporters and the judiciary has also come in for its fair share of criticism. The expense is irrelevant. I guess the outcome is too.
By now, there are so many people whose opinions of Bain's guilt or otherwise are so firmly entrenched, based purely on speculation, hearsay and prejudice, that the verdict won't shake their convictions. In that respect, I'd like to see the trial televised. I'd like to have an opinion based on what the jury hears every day, rather than have the media pick the eyes out of the most salacious and sensational evidence in the trial.
Provided it was a dry as dust presentation, rather in the way Parliament is presented, and the respective TV channels resisted the urge to hire a Kiwi version of Nancy Grace, I think it would be in the public interest to have access to the Bain retrial. And, in the public interest, for the matter to be settled once and for all.
