Robin Bain, deceased by suicide.

Anonymous said...
There will be a cost, as those who have taken part, are slowly learning.

At first they were open about whose blood they wanted. Now they try to hide behind the banner of seeking justice for father.

How much of what they say and do, mentions the great things Robin did? I believe he was responsible for the deaths of his family, but even I can see the man had some wonderful attributes, especially in the early days.

These people have become consumed by their hatred, which now has nothing to do with David Bain, but more to do with the inability to admit, they were wrong.

September 7, 2010 9:03 AM

I find it hard to reconcile Robin, the killer, with anything he did that might have been good earlier in his life, in fact I find it hard to look beyond his descent into madness and not see it as something triggered by his sexual activities with his own children. I think he broke taboos and they in turn broke him. There seems a wider and greater message spelt from his death, a reminder to live your life for the good, not for your own pleasure. There is much made of the reliability of the hearsay evidence surrounding Robin, but evidence can't be manufactured nor sanitised, it must be the spoken word, circumstances faithfully recorded to allow to be tested against ones own experiences, ones own objectivity. There were many things unresolved in the Crown case, perhaps high on the list, at least for me was the proposal that Laniet had been telling her 'stories' in anticipation that years later they would provide an alibi for her brother, who by the Crown's version, was her killer. It doesn't wash. Nor that David would need to somehow emphasise that he delivered the papers, when the proof of their delivery was that they arrived in mailboxes that morning. The extraordinary things the Crown proposed a Jury should believe conflicted with one another so sharply they made no sense - giving perhaps the greatest reason why David should never have been charged. Just as David's efforts at subterfuge made no sense, he denied knowing of any incest, was upset that his family were killed in their beds, he admitted the rifle was his and that only he had a trigger guard key to it - the efforts of someone trying to escape blame, not by a long distance.

I have no reservations that the truth about the Bain case is the truth we saw revealed, an incestuous father driven crazy by eating forbidden fruit, which was for him, and his family unfortunately, leaching a poison he could surely see would destroy him should he bite into it. Whatever Margaret may have thought of the situation in the beginning she knew in the end that she must preserve her children. Much has been made of her, but I imagine her heart was broken and she saw a fresh chance for her children if she kept them near, and away from Robin.

One of the stupidest claims from Robin's fans is why would Robin have 'framed' David for the murder. In fact he didn't, ignorance, and rushed, inexperienced policing did the 'framing.' Robin left all the clues in the world, a motive, a recent history of depression and displays of behaviour that worried his work colleagues, fresh blood on his folded trousers in the van, blood and human hair in the van, spent cartridges in the van and one live shell, no porridge prepared for breakfast, a full bladder, the soot mark on his temple where he had rested the rifle, an uninterrupted flow of spray falling from the curtain and across the carpet, even his blood inside the rifle and silencer and of course a last few words, on his beloved computer and set out in the strict grammar and page set out of which he was so fond.