Detective admits Bain glasses error

A former detective sergeant has told the Bain retrial jury today he was mistaken 14 years ago when he pointed out what he believed was a spectacle lens near the body of 14-year-old Stephen Bain who was lying dead on the floor of his bedroom.

Milton Weir said he accepted the item he showed the jury on a photograph at David Bain's 1995 trial for the murder of his family was not the lens and the lens he thought he was identifying was actually under the boot.

The question of the spectacle lens is an important one in the retrial of 37-year-old David Cullen Bain for the 1994 murders of his parents, two sisters and brother.

The Crown says it was from a glasses David Bain had been wearing, the broken frame and other lens of which were on a chair in Bain's bedroom.

But the defence says that was not the case and that the glasses were not David's but his mother's.

Bain's second trial for the June 20, 1994 murders is now into its fourth week of hearing before Justice Graham Panckhurst and a jury in the High Court in Christchurch.

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