Bain retrial

Bloodstained items from the Bain family's bathroom and laundry were produced in the High Court, Christchurch, today during the retrial of David Bain.

The exact location of bone fragments from Robin Bain was the subject of detailed cross-examination at the retrial of his son David Bain today.

The David Bain murder retrial resumed this morning after a day's break due to the illness of a jury member, Bain, now 36, is charged with the murder of five of his family members at their house in Dunedin, in 1994.

At the end of 10 days of David Bain's retrial for the 1994 murders of his family, evidence has been completed from 40 of the Crown's 150 witnesses.

Police told a High Court jury in Christchurch today of arriving at the messy, unkempt Bain house and finding David Bain lying on the floor in a foetal position, crying, "They are all dead."

A Dunedin detective says he picked up a pair of broken glasses from a chair in David Bain's bedroom but immediately put them down again as he realised the room was a crime scene.

The jury in the David Bain murder retrial today made a special request for the rifle being shown in court to be checked and made safe.

A walkman with a tape of rock band Queen, a large piece of cardboard with five red circles and boxes of .22 ammunition were some of the items police officers found in David Bain's bedroom after five of his family were shot in their Dunedin home.