After three months, the David Bain trial is reaching a conclusion. Today the prosecution sums up its case. Follow latest updates here by hitting 'refresh' throughout the day, or on Twitter.
3.35pm: The Prosecution has finished summing up its case in the retrial of David Bain at the High Court in Christchurch by quoting the accused.
Crown prosecutor Kieran Raftery finished by quoting Bain in a
conversation that he had with a friend shortly after the killings in
1994.
Mr Raftery said Bain told the friend: "I always seem to end up hurting
those that I love."
Mr Raftery finished his summing up by saying: "That is exactly what he
has done in this case".
3.28pm: In order to frame his father, David Bain had to wait for him to come inside before shooting him, the Crown says.
Crown prosecutor Kieran Raftery has told the court that Robin usually
picked up the paper from the letter box if Bain was late on his paper
round.
Mr Raftery said Bain could not go and shoot Robin in his van and
had to wait for his father to come into the house.
He said a policeman who was one of the first to arrive on the morning
of the killings noticed that Robin's temperature was higher than the
rest of the family and it is likely that Robin Bain was shot last.
"David cannot go to the caravan and murder Dad because if he does
that, he's got no one else to blame but himself," Mr Raftery said.
3.14pm: David Bain tried to create himself an alibi on the morning of the killings, the Crown says.
Crown prosecutor Kieran Raftery said Bain deliberately got the
attention of one woman on his paper round to give him an alibi.
He said Bain changed his routine and did something he had not done for
a year - taking his dog on to a property to ensure he would be
noticed.
Mr Raftery said Bain told police that the woman whose dog barked at
him would remember seeing him that morning.
"It is an essential part of his plan if he is to frame his father," Mr
Raftery said.
3.02pm: A magazine found next to Robin Bain's body was balancing on an edge and appeared to have been "staged", the prosecution says.
Crown prosecutor Kieran Raftery has told the court that had Robin been holding the magazine when he died, it would have fallen flat on
its side.
"Has this scenario been staged to look like suicide as the rifle lies
there beside him?" Mr Raftery asked.
2.50pm: There was blood on the rifle belonging to David Bain, according to the Crown.
Crown prosecutor Kieran Raftery told the court that just because there
is no DNA evidence, it does not mean it is not blood.
Mr Raftery called up a bloody photograph of Stephen's bed which was
shown to have extensive blood stains.
However, Mr Raftery said the bed was not tested and yet it can be
deduced that the red staining is blood and that the blood belonged to
Stephen.
Mr Raftery said although the blood on the rifle has been disputed, he
said witnesses have described seeing a red pigment on the rifle and
that luminol test showed that it was of human origin.
Previously the court has heard from a defence witness that the tests
could mean that it was sweat or some other secretion but not necessarily
blood.
2.35pm: The Crown has labelled a claim that a detective may have planted evidence in Stephen Bain's room as "scurrilous" and "without
foundation".
Crown Prosecutor Kieran Raftery held up a booklet of photographs put
together by David Bain's lawyers which they said shows a lens found
in Stephen Bain's room had been planted.
But Mr Raftery said the photographs are out of order and if the
defence had looked at the negative strips, they would have realised
which order the photographs were taken in.
The frames and other lens of the glasses were found in David Bain's
bedroom and the Crown has argued that Bain was wearing the glasses at
the time of the death.
2.26pm: The prosecution has resumed its summing up after the lunch break.
It was David Bain who shot Stephen through the hand, before wrestling
him and finally strangling him - not Robin, the Crown says.
Crown prosecutor Kieran Raftery said Stephen was known to be able to
fight his corner in the school playground.
Mr Raftery said the defence have described Robin as 58 going on 78 and,
therefore, Robin was not the man who fought with Stephen.
"Of the two protagonists, Robin or David, who was the most likely one?
We know from the scene he fought like hell to stay alive," Mr Raftery
said.
Mr Raftery said of the two men, David "fulfills that role much more
readily than Robin".
1:07pm: Crown prosecutor Kieran Raftery has appealed to the jury to decide on the murderer of Stephen Bain. He says they will then have the killer.
"Answer the question who killed Stephen and you've answered all five
counts in this indictment," Mr Raftery said.
Mr Raftery said Stephen's fingerprints, along with Bain's,
were found on the rifle after a bloody fight took place in Stephen's
room before Stephen lost his life.
Mr Raftery put on the blood stained gloves found in Stephen's room and
lifted the rifle used to kill five Bain family members at 65 Every St.
He showed the jury how he said David and Stephen's hands had come into
contact with the rifle during the struggle.
He told the jury that small samples of Stephen's blood were found
on Bain's clothing.
"There is a volume of evidence that connects David Bain and David Bain
alone with the murder scene in Stephen's room," Mr Raftery said.
12.40pm: The question of when David Bain heard Laniet Bain gurgle has been raised by the prosecution.
Mr Raftery said Laniet was likely shot in the cheek first and blood
was found in her lungs. She also received two shots to her head.
Mr Raftery questioned Bain's reaction if he had returned from his paper round and heard Laniet gurgle. "Does he behave like a brother? Does he go straight to the telephone and dial 111? He does no such thing for 20
minutes," he said.
He said if Bain heard signs of life, why did he wait?
Mr Raftery described the scenario as "totally untenable" and called it
a "Freudian slip" by David Bain.
"He's talking about a time during the course of the murders that he
was committing," Mr Raftery said.
12.17pm: The Crown has outlined the "bizarre" scenario that they say the defence is relying in saying Robin Bain killed his family, changed his clothes, typed a message on the computer and then killed himself.
Crown prosecutor Kieran Raftery said the killer did not plan on having
a fight with Stephen Bain.
"There's a fight, one hell of a fight, in that room as Stephen fights
for his life. Whoever went into that room would have been as bloodied
as Stephen was," Mr Raftery said.
He said Robin would then have to have gone back to the caravan,
changed his clothes and put them in the laundry before killing
himself.
Mr Raftery said no blood, positivley identified as belonging to
someone else, was found on the clothing that Robin Bain was wearing
when he died.
"Why on earth?" Mr Raftery asked.
He said Robin would have had to put the bloodied clothes in the
laundry for David to find and wash when he arrived home from his paper
round.
Mr Raftery also questioned why a man who was going to commit suicide
would wear the bloodied gloves found in Stephen Bain's room.
"You wear gloves if you don't want to leave finger prints, members of
the jury," Mr Raftery said.
He said Robin had no reason to wear gloves, gloves that belonged to David Bain.
11.56am: Robin Bain had little time to commit four murders and then commit suicide before David Bain returned from his paper round, the prosecution says.
Crown prosecutor Kieran Raftery told the court that Robin Bain's alarm clock was set for 6.30am.
"Robin Bain put the radio on when he woke up. That was a remarkably
pedestrian thing to do for someone planning four murders and a
suicide," Mr Raftery said.
"From 6.30 to quarter to seven, allowing for listening to the radio,
it doesn't give you much time for four murders and a suicide," he
said.
Mr Raftery also said Robin brought the newspaper inside.
11.24am: Robin Bain would have had to wait 44 seconds while the family computer started up and that would have had to happen with the bodies of four of his family lying in the house and with David Bain about to walk through the door, the prosecution says.
Crown Prosecutor Kieran Raftery halted his summing up for 44 seconds
at the Christchurch High Court to show the jury just how long Robin
would have had to wait.
"The period of time that he had to stop is a hell of a long time," Mr
Raftery said.
He also told the court that it was physically possible that Robin Bain
shot himself but questioned how likely it was.
Mr Raftery said pathologists have given conflicting evidence but the
context was important.
11.09am: The prosecution said David Bain left the bloody footprints found in the Bain family home and tests carried out by the defence prove nothing.
Crown prosecutor Kieran Raftery said the tests carried out by a
defence witness that showed David Bain would have left a 300ml bloody
footprint are not conclusive. The footprints that were found were
280mm long.
But Mr Raftery said the killer was not trying to carry out a test but
was "creeping stealthily about the home, killing members of his
family".
Mr Raftery said blood was found on Bain's socks.
10.55am: The message left on the Bain family computer is a "get out of jail free card" for David Bain, the prosecution says.
Crown prosecutor Kieran Raftery has told the court that the phrase
left on the family computer: "Sorry, you are the only one who deserved
to stay" is not a suicide note.
Mr Raftery said while there was no "accepted format" of suicide note,
the message left on the computer was not written by Robin Bain.
"The note reads more like David Bain talking about himself," Mr Raftery said.
10.44am: A family meeting that the jury heard was to be the occasion when Laniet Bain would tell the family she was a prostitute and had been having an incestuous affair with her father comes from an unreliable source, says the Crown.
Crown prosecutor Kieran Raftery said the evidence comes from Dean Cottle, a man who now has a warrant out for his arrest.
Mr Raftery said there was to be a family meeting but the meeting was called by David Bain and that Laniet feared David.
Mr Raftery has also questioned the defence argument that Robin Bain was depressed.
He reminded the jury that no clinical psychologist saw Robin Bain.
Mr Raftery said a psychologist has given evidence, but he was an educational psychologist.
10.30am: Crown prosecutor Kieran Raftery has rubbished evidence given by witnesses suggesting Laniet was having an incestuous affair with her father, Robin Bain.
"She freely mentions it to dairy owners, yet she never mentions it to her GP. She mentions her prostitution, she does not mention incest," Mr Raftery said.
He said evidence from other witnesses about babies that Laniet said she had is also unreliable.
Mr Raftery said according to evidence given by a number of witnesses, Laniet had three babies before she was 12-and-a-half.
He said there was a black baby, a white baby who Laniet had claimed she had with her father and another child who she said she had after being raped by a family friend.
10.20am: There is not a shred of evidence to suggest Robin Bain committed murder on the morning of June 20, 1994 when five Bain family members were found dead in their Dunedin home, Christchurch High Court has been told this morning.
Crown prosecutor Kieran Raftery has told the jury that despite hearing from pathologists, finger print experts and forensic scientists, "not a single shred of evidence links Robin Bain with any single murder and that is an important starting point".
Mr Raftery told the jury that something went wrong at Every St on the morning of murders.
He said it was not always possible to determine motive in murder trials.
The jury have heard evidence from more than 180 witnesses since March 2.
David Bain is on trial for the murder of five of his family members at the High Court in Christchurch. He denies the charges.
