New Zealand's own Serial takes on the Bain slayings

PodDaily » New Zealand's own Serial takes on the Bain slayings

Stuff today released Black Hands, their first podcast series, in which leading David Bain authority and occasionally-terrible column writer Martin van Beynen draws on ten years of experience following the case to outline exactly why he believes Bain is guilty of murdering his family. Don Rowe spoke to van Beynen about the killings, the difficulty of switching mediums and the danger of investigative journalists writing columns. 

In 2009, shortly after sitting through all 12 weeks of David Bain’s retrial, journalist Martin van Beynen published a column in The Press stating his unequivocal belief that the jury had got it wrong. Bain was guilty, he said, and that a jury would find otherwise, after only five hours’ deliberation, was a scathing indictment on our justice system. Again in 2012 he argued against compensation for Bain, saying it would be a ‘travesty’ given the evidence against him. But he never stopped wondering if he was right. Now Stuff and van Beynen…

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