Muldoon cabinet, after the first trial found him guilty and a retrial was ordered at which he was also found guilty. His compensation was paid in 1980 - 18 years before the guidelines now in use were adopted by the then Labour cabinet. Because he had been acquitted by a jury on a retrial, Mr Bain was not eligible for consideration for compensation under the guidelines. His application could only be considered under the discretion Cabinet reserves to itself in ''extraordinary circumstances'', whatever that means. But the most extraordinary, illogical and plainly wrong of all is the requirement of Cabinet that the applicant prove his or her innocence.

Source: Otago Daily Times August 17, 2016 18:11 UTC