An ambulance officer called out on the morning that five Bain family members were found dead has told the Christchurch High Court today there were no 'medical signs' David Bain had a fit that morning.
David Bain's retrial for the murder of five of his family in Dunedin in 1994 has resumed in Christchurch today after a three-day break.
Former ambulance officer Raymond Anderson, who was the shift leader on June 20, 1994, has taken the stand.
He was cleaning his ambulance at the end of his shift when he got a phone call at about 7.10am and left the station a short time later.
Mr Anderson said once he got inside the Every St house, he found David Bain in his bedroom in a foetal position near his bed.
He told the court that he placed electrodes on Bain to monitor his heart beat and oxygen levels which was at a normal level.
Mr Anderson said he brushed Bain's eye lashes to get a response and Bain's eyelids moved, indicating he was not unconscious.
He said conscious people cannot resist reacting if their eye lashes are brushed.
"I was quite comfortable in concluding that the patient did not need any degree of medical intervention at that stage," Mr Anderson told the court.
He said he also witnessed Bain "shaking" and said it was not a fit or seizure.
"The best way to describe it was that both arms and legs were moving in a coordinated fashion".
Mr Anderson said Bain showed no medical signs that he had had a fit.
He described the fit as "non-violent".
Last week, defence lawyers produced an ambulance officers report from the morning of June 20,1994.
Bain's lawyer Michael Reed, QC, said that the ambulance officer report indicated that Bain was unconscious.
However, Mr Anderson said Bain had not had a fit or seizure and was not unconscious.
He told Crown prosecutor Cameron Mander that he had witnessed people pretending to have seizures before.
Asked by Mr Mander about people pretending to have seizures, he said it was often by "psychiatric people" living in the community.
