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Black Hands, based on a podcast of the same name, will describe the years leading up to the deaths of Robin and Margaret Bain, along with three of their children, Arawa, Laniet, and Stephen in June 1994.
David Bain, the eldest son and only surviving son, was jailed in 1995 after being convicted of the murders and spent 13 years in prison before being acquitted in a new trial.
In 2016, he received a compensation payment of $ 1 million, but did not apologize.
Black Hands director David Stubbs and award-winning producer Robin Scholes say the series will leave it up to viewers to “make their own decisions” about who is most likely responsible for the murders.
The TVNZ drama series has been funded with $ 5 million from New Zealand On Air.
One of David Bain’s closest friends and oldest supporter, former All Black Joe Karam says he finds the premise tacky.
“For me, there is something macabre about capitalizing on Bain’s story,” he told the Herald today.
“For people who have suffered a tragedy, and to start all over again, when finally after so long it had sunk and people were moving on with their lives … it’s all really self-indulgent and at the expense of the Bain family.”
Karam admits that he will probably record the show and watch it “when he has nothing to do.”
But he doubts that David Bain, who married Christchurch elementary school teacher Liz Davies in 2014, will tune in.
“He’s moved on,” says Karam, who fears that Black Hands “isn’t very flattering to David.”
“So I don’t think he’s watching. He’s really not interested.
“To me, it is a nonsense story. What can be achieved? They are trying to say that they are showing what life was like for these people, but it is really hearsay. have been able to give their opinion.
“And if the Bain family didn’t want him to show himself, that says a lot. Regardless of which side of the fence they’re on, some respect should be shown for the fact that this is all over, done, and dusted off.”
Toi Whakaari / New Zealand Drama School graduate Richard Crouchley will play David Bain in the drama series.
David’s parents, Robin and Margaret, will be played by Joel Tobeck and Luanne Gordon, with David’s younger siblings played by Lucy Currey as Arawa Bain, Amelia Elliott as Laniet Bain, and Angus Stevens as Stephen Bain.
But Karam is not swayed by the cast or the multi-million dollar treatment.
“The real story in the Bain case is, how come it took 13 years, when in the space of six months I saw that there was a judicial error,” he says.
“As soon as it got to a court abroad, they ruled the substantial judicial error, and then I always said I would be acquitted, and it was.
“If they wanted to spend $ 5 million on something, it should have been what went wrong in this case.”
