It was always clear there’d be a big claim for millions in compensation …and Joe Karam would want to do a movie ( David never did ) after years of ‘Trial by Television ‘. Main thing now in a compensation case would be to get David to talk.

I was inside this case for years and visited David in prison, as one of his main benefactors, though gratefully never part of JK’s publicity campaign. It’s complex, and the ‘facts’ are often quoted wrongly but there’s certainly strong indicators pointing to David – for at least some of what happened.

This case has cost the country a heap, incl in the legal aid, so it probably deserves an unbiased enquiry. ( The Brian Bruce doco was wrong on some things, right on some, inept on others. And that last witness is obviously lying. )

Having said that Bain is really pushing his luck and the Joe Karam traveling road show of victimhood should pack up its tent and stop peddling snake oil.

David Tamihere and Scott Watson are exactly where they should be, I suspect that neither of them are guilty of the crimes that sent them down but every once in a while the public get a little bit of natural or poetic justice going their way.

How is it natural justice if the real killers have gotten away scott-free, at large to kill again, the families never know what happened to their children or get their bodies back, someone spends ‘life’ in prison for murders they didn’t commit and the lives of their families are ruined?

But that’s ok. Scott Watson was a bit of a wanker. Apparently. At least that’s what I heard from rumours, many of which it turns out were put about by police.

bang on

Kiwis are a funny lot, dont like crims, but dont like to believe a convicted murderer is a murderer either…