Reader asked

Reader said...
So what are the motives of the stalkers, the persecutors? Why do they do what they do? Who are they? What do they have to gain? A poster on TradeMe has just pointed out that their professed reasons don't tally with the focus on Robin Bain alone. So who are these people, what have they got to gain from David being thought guilty by the public? Who can perceive themselves damaged by Robin's guilt? What are their connections with the case?

I think these are among the most interesting questions of all. After the evidence has been done to death, when a result has been reached that will never be changed the persecutors remain. Who are they you ask, perhaps they are those that want misery, to have something external from themselves that will never be resolved, in the same way their own bitterness will never be resolved, but which might, by some extension into a fantasy shield them from that they wish to ignore. I can feel sorry for them on the one hand, and would completely feel so if they did not need to build their own misery into something they need to off-load onto others. I remember from long ago the story of the Apache who died silently in war so as not to betray some advantage to an enemy. From that story I recall a particular strength to not pass one's own shortcomings, failures or inadequacies to others in anyway, but particularly not so by loading them onto a victim of injustice.