A blood-splattered green curtain screening the computer alcove from the lounge where David Bain's father lay dead, a rifle beside him, has been shown to the Christchurch jury hearing Bain's retrial.
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.
Video footage of the Bain family home in Dunedin on June 20, 1994, brought a hush to the High Court at Christchurch yesterday as jurors saw the stark reality of the scene confronting police that morning.
The High Court in Christchurch was hushed for almost 20 minutes today while the Bain retrial jury saw edited video footage of the Every St house where five people lay dead.
David Bain told a police officer the day after the June 1994 shootings of his parents and three siblings he would be "very disappointed" if it was his father who killed the family.
David Bain called 111 and said all his family were dead when he had only seen the bodies of his parents, a court has heard today.
A Dunedin detective has revealed for the first time in 15 years that he briefly picked up a pair of glasses from a chair in David Bain's bedroom the morning five of Bain's immediate family were found shot.
One of the first ambulance officers to arrive at the Bain family's Every St address on June 20, 1994, was taking "a cautious approach" as "Aramoana was still fresh in our minds and we didn't know what we were going to find", the High Court at Christchurch heard yesterday.
After five days of David Bain's retrial on five charges of murder, the jury hearing the case in the High Court in Christchurch has selected its foreman.
Whether or not David Bain had a seizure or fit the morning five members of his family were found shot at their Dunedin home in 1994 was the focus of much of the evidence from police and ambulance officers in the High Court at Christchurch yesterday.
A former police officer said today he thought it ''unusual'' a rifle magazine near the dead body of Robin Bain was sitting on its edge.
The first of several police officers to arrive at the Bain family's home on June 20, 1994, has described breaking into the house and finding David Bain in a hysterical condition on the floor of his bedroom crying, "They are all dead; they are all dead."
The Bain murder retrial jury was yesterday told bloody sock prints found on the carpet in the Every St house were more likely to have been made by Robin Bain than David Bain.
A former neighbour of the Bain family described murder accused David Bain's mother Margaret as a "flaky", self-opinionated person with some unusual ideas.
The attack on police handling of the 1994 Bain family murder investigation continued in the High Court at Christchurch yesterday, with a senior investigating officer under intense and lengthy cross-examination for much of the day.
Technical difficulties hit the Bain retrial in Christchurch twice yesterday.
Former Dunedin police photographer Trevor Gardner has told the High Court in Christchurch cameras used to record the scene of the 65 Every St murders on June 20, 1994 did not have the time and date mechanisms switched on.
A Christchurch jury was presented with starkly contrasting views of who was responsible for the 1994 killing of five members of the Bain family when the David Bain murder case returned to court yesterday.
Jurors selected to hear David Bain's retrial were told yesterday the presumption of innocence was the starting point of the trial and they had to put aside any prior knowledge of the case.
David Bain appeared calm as he returned to court yesterday to be retried for the 1994 murders of five of his family.
