25 Feb 2009

Bain hearing delayed

5:19 am on 25 February 2009

A Supreme Court hearing in Christchurch that was scheduled for Wednesday in the David Bain case has been delayed.

Details of the hearing, which is an appeal against an earlier decision made by the Court of Appeal, are suppressed.

Another pre-trial hearing in the High Court, unrelated to the proceedings in the Supreme Court, is also unresolved.

Mr Bain's retrial is now rescheduled from next Monday. It will begin on Friday 6 March.

David Bain is accused of murdering his parents and three siblings at their home in Dunedin in 1994.