What the hate-siters didn't want to hear.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/7092030/Judge-to-talk-to-David-Bain

Fantastic news here for David. His opportunity to speak freely about the effect of his false imprisonment on him, his dealings with the police and Crown over the many years since 1994. Van Beynan tries to blow some wind into the arrangement but even he must acknowledge the significance of Justice Binnie deciding to interview David. Despite what the hate-siters have said for years there are no 'curly' questions for David to answer because the forensic evidence showing his innocence is complete and always was had the investigation been up to scratch and open minded.

On the other hand the request to interview former Detectives Weir and Doyle is significant. There may possible be issues as to self-incrimination which could see them refuse to be interviewed and the inquiry and the public will make of that what they will. I've been very hopeful about this inquiry looking into revealing what went wrong with the Bain investigation and the conduct of Weir, Doyle and others. They will not be happy men, but it is difficult to feel any pity for them as they were pitiless in never investigating Robin Bain, even showing public hatred towards David in Weir's case. There is an under leaf that is in the public interest to be turned over in this case, detectives recording times but not reporting inaccuracies of time on their watches, detectives suddenly 'remembering' events years later that were detrimental to David, the placing of glasses on a chair that were suddenly 'remembered' to have been asked for even though they were on no use to anybody. The witnesses Sanderson and Laney who were lied to when they were told their evidence would be 'corrected' though it never was.

I'd like to know why Weir suddenly became a 'searcher' when he was OIC of exhibits and why his 'search' took place after hours. Why Doyle had no questions how the lens could have been found 'despite' as in the case of the shell in Crewe garden, having been thoroughly searched before. I'd also like to know how Laniet's electronic diary disappeared while in care of Weir as attested to by another witness. Equally, if that diary was why the Crown pathologist Dr Dempster was kept from the scene for many important hours. Also, if that diary showed that the allegations that members of the investigating team had indeed been 'clients' of one of the deceased. It would be helpful for Doyle to explain how he would 'know' that the results of forensic tests would not exculpate David, but charged him anyway. I'd like to know why there was so much haste, why Robin's hands weren't bagged at the outset, why police walked through the entire house that had blood on the walls and floor. It would be helpful to understand why the 'paper run' alibi was 'bolstered' with lies, confusion and omission. My list could go on for a long time, but I'm sure it will not near match the acute reasoning and questioning that has resulted in this move by Justice Binnie, to what seems to me, look behind the formula of a blatant Miscarriage of Justice.

I called for Weir to come clean, clear the air. Maybe he will now or maybe he will be silent. But things are surely not over for he, Doyle and others. Those still involved in the police that were on this case may well see themselves interviewed officially by Justice Binnie or from within the Police. The country still drags around the horror of what happened to Arthur and the horrible way the late Vivian was treated - yet I think we see here that this stone won't be left unturned and that, is for the good of this country.