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.
In his evidence in the High Court in Christchurch where David Bain, now 36, is being tried a second time for the murder of his parents, two sisters and brother, Det Sgt Greg Dunne said he interviewed Bain several times in the days following the killings.
During one interview he asked Bain why, when he called 111, he had said all his family were dead. Bain said he did not know why. He said he had seen only his mother and his father lying dead.
Bain was adamant he had not touched any rifle that day and had definitely not gone into any of the other bedrooms where people were found dead.
And he also said he did not want to open the door when the police arrived because ''what I had seen scared me too much - I didn't want to see it again'', Det Sgt Dunne told the court on the seventh day of the hearing before Justice Graham Panckhurst and a jury.
Bain also told the police officer his parents and siblings were killed that his mother had felt oppressed by his father.
His mother, Margaret, was part-way through a music degree when she married Robin Bain and they returned to Papua New Guinea when Bain himself was 1-1/2 years old.
By the time his mother had Laniet, the second youngest of the four children, she felt her life was ''for his gratufication'', Bain told Detective Sergeant Greg Dunne a few hours after the five bodies were found in the family's Every St house in Dunedin on June 20, 1994.
In his evidence in the High Court in Christchurch where David Bain, now 36, is being tried a second time for the murder of his parents, two sisters and brother, Det Sgt Dunne said he spoke to Bain several times in the days following the killings.
