Who Is Mark Lundy Guilty?

The topic I have chosen to research is crimes that are infamous in New Zealand. The reason I chose to research this topic is because I find research about investigations of crimes and finding out what actually happened really interesting. My hypothesis for the two crimes I have chosen which is the Mark Lundy Trial and the David Bain Trial is that the people who were charged with the murders are guilty and I believe those who were released should not have been released. The two questions I will be focussing on are “Was Mark Lundy guilty?” and “Was David Bain guilty?” I will be using 3 points to answer each question and they are “Who was charged and what were they charged for”, “What provoked them to kill” and “What were the final outcomes of

Mark Lundy, father of Amber and husband of Christine was charged with murder and was sentenced to a minimum of 17 years increased to 20 on appeal. I believe that Mark Lundy is guilty because there is plenty of evidence to prove that he did it and the theory as to why he committed the crimes is believable but there is also a fair amount of evidence to prove that he didn’t do it. The police believe that even though Mark was in Wellington the night his daughter and wife were murdered, they strongly believe he made a spontaneous trip back to Palmerston North to commit the crimes. This shows that the police had enough evidence to believe he was guilty as they knew that he wanted to do it so badly that he would travel back to do it and use Wellington as an alibi. The crown believe that Lundy killed his wife to get insurance money so he could pay off the debt he owed. Mark Lundy was in great amounts of debt and both Christine and Mark in just weeks before Christine’s murder each increased their cover from $205,000 to $500,000 in insurance. The crown believe that was the main reason Mark killed Christine and then Amber because she saw him murder her mother and was collateral damage. A big

I believe that David Bain did kill his family because there is a lot of evidence to say he did do it as the police had evidence which linked him to the murders. For example, in his brother Stephen’s room there was a lens from a pair of glasses David was wearing. The dark green jersey David was wearing which he later said was his father’s left fibres under Stephens nails. There was also a big piece of evidence that stood out when David was being questioned. He made a comment saying that when he was in the house he heard his sister gurgling and the prosecution later said that “Only one person could have heard that, her killer” Another person who confirmed that was Dr Kenneth Thomson, a pathologist. He confirmed that all sounds of gurgling would stop in a couple of seconds after being shot. David Bain’s slip up was in fact a confession. There is no real reason as to why David murdered his family and you will never truly knew as it wasn’t anything to do with mental illness as doctors checked to see if it was possible and he was cleared of any mental illnesses and appeared fine. There was a theory that it was revenge of his father’s supposed sexual harassment but there was no evidence to prove that and it doesn’t explain why he killed his whole