Bain’s ‘dad’ opens up about family murders
A former Dunedin prison officer whom David Bain called ‘‘Dad’’ has spoken out for the first time about the Bain murders in 1994.
Graeme Stanley, who retired from Corrections in 2005 after 30 years in the prisons, got to know Bain through his son Shane and looked after him in Dunedin Prison before the first Bain trial in 1995.
Stanley said he got on well with Bain who in 1995 was found guilty of the murders of his family before being acquitted at another trial in 2009.
‘‘I had a lot of time for David. He was a pleasant, sociable young fella. He was very close to his mother.’’
Bain was also fond of the Stanleys, referring to Stanley and his wife Lynn, now deceased, as ‘‘Mum and Dad’’ in Christmas cards.
In a new 10-part podcast called Black Hands, which launches tomorrow, Stanley described how he had been on duty when Bain was first brought in after his arrest and found it so difficult he had to go home. ‘‘I became somewhat emotional.’’