The Kahui Code

So Chris Kahui has been found not guilty with, what some will see as, unseemly haste in terms of jury deliberations? That is unsettling. Fifteen minutes? Deliberations deliberately delayed until after the free lunch? Did this jury have something better to do? Did they all decide after the lunch that a quick decision was necessary so that they could all rush away and, instead, deliberate on Dr Cullen’s budget? Or replays of State of Origin?

It is not for me to comment on the jury’s finding. I wasn’t there and didn’t hear what they heard. Nor do I know enough about the case. But the haste in which they arrived at their not guilty question begs some further questions:

• Should the Police/Prosecution have brought it to court in the first place?
• Was there a single point/evidence in the trial that swayed the jury and after that all else was academic?
• And costly?

And mostly…

• If not Chris, who?

The last is what I find most disturbing. That and the fact that the Police have already announced they are not seeking anybody else or intending to lay any further charges in relation to these murders. Let’s recap: two babies died. Chris and Cru Kahui, twins, were fatally injured on June 12, 2006, and were admitted to Middlemore Hospital the next day, dying five days later at Auckland's Starship Children's Hospital.

They had severe brain injuries, broken ribs and Chris had a broken leg.

And nobody is to now be blamed? Yeah, I am pissed. This is SO wrong! Do you remember when Arthur Allan Thomas was “pardoned” for the murders of the Crewes? Police effectively closed that case, also without further investigation.

Therefore…

§ If we don’t get our own way, first up, we give up?

And two children die, and nobody, nobody, is held to account.

It stinks.

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