David Bain has to repay some of his multi-million dollar
legal aid bill, the Legal Services Agency has confirmed.
Mr Bain, 37, was acquitted of murdering his parents and three
siblings at their Dunedin home in 1994 after a retrial in the
High Court at Christchurch last month.
At that time the Legal Services Agency said he had received
more than $2.7 million in legal assistance since his original
trial and a final figure would not be known until all
invoices had been received and assessed.
An agency spokeswoman yesterday said that three separate
grants of legal aid were made in relation to Mr Bain's
retrial - the retrial itself and the pre-trial appeals to the
Court of Appeal and Supreme Court.
He did not have to repay the grant for the retrial but "does
have a repayment established on his aid for the pre-trial
matters".
Asked how much he had to repay, she told NZPA: "That sort of
information is private to the individual."
Members of Mr Bain's legal team could not be contacted for
comment.
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