David Bain's retrial for the murder of five of his family in Dunedin in 1994 resumes in Christchurch today. Hit refresh throughout the day for the latest updates. Or you can follow us on Twitter
4.58pm Court has adjourned for the day.
Proceedings will begin at the earlier time of 9.45am tomorrow morning and are intended to end by 2pm.
4.52pm Margaret Bain did not die immediately after receiving a fatal gunshot to her head on the morning of June, 20, 1994.
Under cross-examination by David Bain's lawyer Helen Cull, QC, Ms Fitchett has confirmed evidence from the pathologist Dr Alexander Dempster.
Marie Fitchett was the officer in charge of Margaret Arawa Cullen Bain's body, the mother of Bain.
She witnessed the post-mortem examination of Mrs Bain by Dr Dempster who said the "victim has lived long enough to inhale blood into the lungs".
Dr Dempster told Ms Fitchett that Mrs Bain had heavy lungs.
4.35pm Marie Fitchett was the officer in charge of Margaret Arawa Cullen Bain, the mother of accused David Bain.
Ms Fitchett said she saw the body of a "large female lying on her back on a waterbed, covered with a duvet".
She said Mrs Bain had a bullet wound on the left side of her face, just below her left eyebrow.
Ms Fitchett said Mrs Bain was wearing a blue night shirt and a wedding ring.
She described the room as "cluttered".
Ms Fitchett told the court that she later saw the post mortem examination of Mrs Bain and saw a bullet fragment taken out of her skull.
4.32pm A legal argument over a point of law has held up proceedings at the High Court in Christchurch for about 25 minutes.
4.05pm A computer expert has said that it may have only taken him a minute to save the message on the Bain family computer.
Martin Cox was employed by the University of Otago as a computer advisor and asked by the police to determine what time the Bain family computer was turned on.
He first looked at the computer at 2.16pm, according to a detective's watch, on the afternoon after the bodies of five Bain family members were found in their Dunedin home.
The computer had a message on it which read: "Sorry you are the only one who deserved to stay".
Mr Raftery asked: "you gave us earlier an estimate of two minutes after 14.16 [2.16pm] of saving the message to the hard disk."
Mr Cox said: "Perhaps it would be wise to move it forward one minute" and that the message was saved within two minutes.
Earlier the court heard that Mr Cox was able to determine that the computer had been originally turned on 31 hours and 32 minutes before he saved the message.
The court also heard that the detective's watch was about two minutes fast.
The time that the Bain family computer was turned on is important to both the Crown and defence cases when compared with the time that David Bain arrived home from his paper round.
3.33pm The computer expert called by police to help them find out what time the Bain family computer was turned on has confirmed to the court that he took notes at the time but has since lost them.
Martin Cox was employed by the University of Otago as a computer advisor and has told the court today that he did take some notes.
Under cross-examination, David Bain's lawyer Michael Reed, QC, he confirmed that he gave evidence to the police that he had taken some notes but that those are now lost.
He has also confirmed under cross-examination that it could have taken between one and three minutes to have saved the document from the time he sat down at the computer.
Mr Cox said that three would have been unlikely.
Mr Reed took Mr Cox through each key that he would have pressed to save the file once he had decided on a file name.
Mr Cox confirmed that it would take about 15 seconds.
"I'm not trying to trip you up on this, I'm not suggesting that you misled the jury," Mr Reed said.
The time that the Bain family computer was turned on is important to both the Crown and defence cases when compared with the time that David Bain arrived home from his paper round.
1.16pm The police timing of when the Bain family computer was turned on and a message file created could be about two minutes out.
Martin Cox was employed by the University of Otago as a computer advisor in 1994 and was asked by police to determine what time the Bain family computer was turned on and a message from the likely killer was left.
The message read: "Sorry you are the only one who deserved to stay".
The internal clock on the computer was faulty but Mr Cox was able to compare the time that he saved the message with the time that the computer thought it was.
He was then able to determine that the computer had been originally turned on 31 hours and 32 minutes before he saved the message.
However under cross-examination, Bain's lawyer Michael Reed, QC, has told the court that the detective's watch that Mr Cox used when saving the file was approximately two minutes fast.
Mr Reed said that the jury in the first trial back in 1995 were given a computer turn-on time of 6.44am. But Mr Reed said the true time is more likely to be 6.42am.
The time that the Bain family computer was turned on is important to both the Crown and defence cases when compared with the time that David Bain arrived home from his paper round.
12.42pm A computer expert has told the court that the computer was turned on and the message file created exactly 31 hours and 32 minutes before he saved the document.
Martin Cox has told the court that he told police of his findings and asked for the detective who was accompanying him to have his watch checked.
Under cross-examination by Bain's lawyer Michael Reed, QC, that he believed the message file was originally created at 6.44am.
But Mr Reed said police knew of an error of up to two minutes in Mr Anderson's watch.
The detective's watch was used to discover the timing of the original document when compared to the document being saved over a day later.
Mr Reed asked: "You were asked to sign a sworn document that is true and correct without being told of the error whatever it was?"
Mr Cox agreed.
Mr Reed said that the first jury were told that the time of the computer switch-on was 6.44am when in actual fact, given the detective's watch fault, it was actually more likely to be 6.42am.
The timing of the computer switch on is important to the cases of both the defence and Crown.
12.25pm A computer expert has told the court that the Bain family computer was an IBM compatible and about 10 years old.
The court has previously been told that the computer had a message which read: "Sorry you are the only one who deserved to stay".
Martin Cox was employed as a computer advisor by the University of Otago.
He has told the court that he saved the document as "message" to the hard disk of the computer.
Mr Cox said he tried to run a list of the files to find out the time that the file was created but when he did so, no times for the files came up.
He said he then turned the computer off because Microsoft Word stored a temporary file and that may make it possible to find a time that the file had been created.
Mr Cox said once the computer was turned back on he noticed that the application used to set the time and date did not operate correctly.
He said the internal computer clock and date were incorrect, giving a date in 1980, but he could tell that the computer had been turned on and the word file had been created within one minute of each other.
12.05pm A software engineer, asked to help police with a computer found in an alcove off the living room where the body of Robin Bain was found, has taken the stand.
Marin Cox was employed by the University of Otago in 1994 and asked by police to find out what time a message had been left on the computer.
The court has previously heard that the computer message read: "Sorry you are the only one who deserved to stay".
He was asked by Crown prosecutor Kieran Raftery if he knew what time he had arrived on the day after the bodies of the five Bain family members were found.
He said he recalls arriving and seeing the police "enjoying the afternoon sun" while they ate their lunch and listened to the 2pm news bulletin on National Radio. He said he recalls the weather forecast was being broadcast at the time.
11.30am: Blood spots were found on David Bain's duvet on the day after five of his family members were found dead in their home, the court has heard.
A former detective has told the court that he helped search David Bain's bedroom on June 21, 1994.
Kevin Anderson said the spots of blood were found on the underside of the duvet, "near the top".
Mr Anderson said he also found a firearms licence made out to David Cullen Bain and a receipt for a Winchester rifle for $200 as well as a $30 gun cleaning kit and an ammunition belt. It was signed by a G.S Taylor.
He also alluded to a cardboard target which had five red circles on it and holes in it.
The cardboard target was entered as an exhibit yesterday.
11.24am: Twenty-four packets of live .22 calibre ammunition were found in the bottom of David Bain's wardrobe the day after five of his family members were found dead, the court has heard.
A former detective has said he helped search David Bain's bedroom on June 21, 1994.
Kevin Anderson told the court the ammunition had "whisper" written on it and was "hollow point".
He has counted out four full boxes and one empty box.
"I'm not sure what happened to that exhibit. At the time I secured it there were seven packets."
Crown prosecutor Kieran Raftery asked if he was aware that tests had been carried out on the ammunition in the years since 1994.
In a tea bag box, also found in the wardrobe, Mr Anderson said a further 17 packets of Stirling .22 calibre rifle ammunition was found.
Another box contained more live ammunition of a variety of brands.
Mr Anderson said a bread bag with 66 live rounds and 9 damaged rounds was also found in the wardrobe, along with an ammunition belt with the capital letter "B" stamped on it. The belt contained a further 47 rounds.
11.02am A former detective has told the court that he helped search David Bain's bedroom on the day after five Bain family members were found dead in their home.
He has had various exhibits given to him by court staff while sitting in the witness box.
The items include half of the trigger lock for the .22 rifle found next to the body of Robin Bain in the family living room.
He was also given a ceramic dish found on Bain's desk.
Evidence has previously been given to the court that Bain kept one of the keys to the trigger lock in a ceramic dish. The other key he kept on a piece of string, usually around his neck.
Mr Anderson also said he found eight .22 calibre bullets on the floor of Bain's bedroom.
10.42am The Bain family computer found with a message from the killer was checked by a computer expert from the University of Otago.
The message on the computer read: "Sorry you are the only one who deserved to stay".
Computer expert, Martin Cox, looked at the computer with Kevin Anderson, the detective in charge of the living room where the body of Robin Bain was found.
Mr Anderson has told the court that the IBM computer was running Microsoft Word.
He said it was important to find out what time the message was put on the computer.
Mr Anderson said Mr Cox saved the file as "message" but the save did not work.
He said the computer's clock was also out.
Mr Anderson said the alcove was also messy, like the rest of the house.
He said a lamp lay across the floor and a cushion was on the floor.
10.31am The coffee table in the room where Robin Bain's body was found looked to have been moved, says a detective.
Robin Bain's body was found partially slumped over a bean bag in the family living room. He had a single gunshot wound to the head.
Kevin Anderson was a detective in 1994 and was put in charge of the living room scene.
"Although the room was cluttered, everything had its place but the coffee table seemed to have been moved.
"The doyley was slightly draped over. It doesn't seem to be square with the hearth. One leg is on the mat," Mr Anderson said.
He told the court that two blood spots were found on the coffee table.
10.17am The blood spotted curtain hanging in the computer alcove, near where the body of Robin Bain was found has been held up in court.
Kevin Anderson was a detective in 1994 and was put in charge of the living room where the body of Robin Bain was found.
Mr Anderson was asked about the blood spots by Crown prosecutor Kieran Raftery.
"[It's] in the right position for the curtain that was hanging in the computer alcove," Mr Anderson said.
He said the curtain was removed on the day that five bodies of the Bain family were found in their Every St address.
Mr Anderson said the curtain was re-hung days later and it was found that the "blood spatter" measured 9cm across.
Mr Anderson said that the folds could have been in different places when it was re-hung.
9.49am Further evidence about the exhibits seized from the Bain house will be presented at David Bain's retrial in Christchurch today.
Evidence regarding the Dunedin house has been divided into 10 scenes, with each being meticulously described.
Yesterday's Crown evidence started with a video taken in the house, showing clutter and graphic images of the bodies of the five family members killed in 1994.
The rifle used in the killings was also presented to the court, prompting concern from the jury which asked for reassurance the weapon was safe to have in the court room. Witness Kevin Anderson, a former detective who had worked on the case, told the court the rifle was not loaded and had a trigger lock and safety mechanism.
Mr Anderton told the jury that several .22 cartridges were located in the room.
He said a magazine was on the carpet standing on its side, but had been knocked over by a pathologist who was examining the body of Bain's father, Robin.
Today, various police witnesses will continue speaking about the individual rooms.
