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The Bain murder jury has been told today that 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 Continuing his intensive cross examination of Jim Doyle one of the senior officers in the 1994 murder investigation defence counsel Michael Reed QC accused Mr Doyle of allowing misleading evidence to be given at the first trial He said the luminol tested sock prints were measured at 280mm and Robin s empty sock at 240mm which was believed scientifically to have been too small to have made the prints But when Robin s dead foot was measured in the morgu

it was found to be 270mm As the foot expands slightly when walking that meant the footprints had been made by Robin Mr Reed said Mr Doyle said he was not an expert on such matters and was taking advice from the ESR But he agreed that although David had been co operative and had allowed various tests in the days after the shootings his feet had not been measured He agreed that some time after the first trial he became aware David Bain s foot had been measured and was 300mm long Mr Doyle was also questioned about the substance under four of Bain s fingerprints found on the rifle At the first trial it was said to be human blood but Mr Reed said it was now known there was no human DNA present in the substance and that the substance tested was not actually from under the fingerprints but from an adjacent site on the rifle Justice Panckhurst spoke many times to Mr Reed about the unfair and speculative nature of the questions he was putting to Mr Doyle As Crown counsel Kieran Raftery pointed out in an objection the question of whether there was human DNA was a matter of dispute in the trial and defence counsel should not put the question to Mr Doyle as if it was established fact Bain denies murdering the five members of his family at their every St home on June 20 1994 Robin Bain Murder Case This entry was posted on Tuesday January 5th 2010 at 7 20 am and is filed under kieran You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2 0 feed Both comments and pings are currently closed