Callinan report highlights issues in David Bain's innocence appealDAVID WALKER/FAIRFAX NZReporter MARTIN VAN BEYNEN, who covered David Bain's retrial in 2009, believes the Callinan report highlights the longstanding flaws and inconsistencies in David's story that he is innocent of the deaths of his family and that his father Robin was the killer. In just 144 pages, former Australian Supreme Court judge Ian Callinan lays bare David Bain's case for compensation and finds it wanting. READ MORE:* Government rejects David Bain's bid for compensation – but he says they got it wrong* Duncan Garner: The shameful case of David Bain's compo* Compensation for Bain would be 'a travesty'* New Zealand's wrongfully convicted have been paid out, what about David Bain? Callinan did not have any regard to Binnie's report or Binnie's interview with David Bain in 2012. Before Callinan, Bain bore the onus of showing innocence.

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