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Christchurch, May 11 NZPA - Two children at Dunedin's Taieri Beach School where Robin Bain was principal complained that he had struck them, a grief counsellor told the High Court in Christchurch today.
Cyril Wilden, a senior psychologist for the Department of Education, said that when he spoke to school pupils after Mr Bain's death two of them told him Mr Bain had lost his cool and hit them.
Mr Wilden said he knew Mr Bain had been under severe stress.
When he had asked him if he had been to get medical help, he said yes, but he was very defensive.
Mr Wilden was giving evidence on the 42nd day of the trial of David Bain on charges of murdering his father Robin, mother Margaret, and his two sisters and a brother in the family's Dunedin home in June 1994.
The defence which opened on Friday claims that Robin Bain murdered his wife and three of his four children and then turned the gun on himself.
Mr Wilden said Robin Bain was struggling to cope. He could be completely flat and lifeless, morose and non-communicative.
Then he would be full of life and talk about his computers, maths, music and the secret garden he was planning at the school.
Mr Wilden felt that in 1993-94 Mr Bain "was on a spiral of downward coping".
He needed more assistance and guidance, he said.
Mr Wilden said he met Margaret Bain a few weeks before her death. She talked to him about having given away her belief in God and having found a better way.
She had "new age" ideas, and used divinity with a pendulum to guide her when she made decisions.
She was a very strong willed person, and he had no chance to get a word in edgewise during the 30 minutes he spoke with her.
He felt she was not in a rational state of mind and became anxious about the emotional stress and pressure at home for her husband.
Mary-Anne Pease, a psychologist, accompanied Mr Wilden to Taieri Beach School to offer post trauma event counselling and support.
She worked with the junior class children but said she was shocked when she saw the senior classroom.
There was no work proudly displayed, everything was very disordered and it was difficult to know where the children were up to with their studies.
Earlier today Kevin McKenzie, who was the president of the Taieri Principals' Association, said that in March 1994, Mr Bain seemed to be more negative and down.
He knew Mr Bain had unsuccessfully applied for positions and he knew the Tomorrow's Schools plan was causing him a lot of stress and strain.
The association was so concerned about Mr Bain that it set up a course to help him and other principals through the stress. If he was down, maybe others were too, he said.
In 2000 he was shown stories that Mr Bain's schoolchildren had written, and which had been published in the school newsletter.
Three of the stories were particularly disturbing and contained warnings that some topics may disturb adult readers.
He said that in 1994 teachers would motivate the children in their stories with discussions, pictures, experiences, and questions.
"Any teacher I know would be concerned by the content of these stories," he said. "The whole thing is weird and disturbing."
If children in his school had written the stories, he would have got assistance for them.
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