PUBLISHER'S NOTE: In the roughly 10 years since I began
publishing The Charles Smith Blog some of the issues I have explored -
as well as some of the cases I have been following - have become the
subject matter of books. This prompted me recently - as I searched
anxiously for ways of keeping me occupied during the languid summer
hours - other than sitting on the patio, drinking a cool glass of white
wine, and reading the latest Steven King - it occurred to me that a book
review series based in my previous posts from the outset of the Blog
would be just what the pathologist ordered. I would invite my readers to
offer me their own suggestions for inclusion by email to
hlevy15@gmail.com. Have a great summer.
Harold Levy: Publisher. The Charles Smith Blog.
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PUBLISHER'S NOTE: "Joe Karam is a fascinating man, who, as the following Wikipedia entry shows gave unqualified support- at enormous personal cost to David Bain in his battles for exoneration and compensation. His career shows an extraordinary path from rugby football player, to successful businessman, to seeker of justice for David Bain. As the entry notes: "Based on his extensive research over many years, Karam wrote four books about David Bain's case. The first was
"David and Goliath: the Bain family murders" published in 1997. Karam made accusations against two police officers in
David and Goliath
as a result of which he was sued for defamation. (He won that case as
well.) The book created a media furore. Karam appeared regularly on
Holmes and 'did a thousand other media interviews'.
[1] The second book,
"Bain and Beyond" was published in 2000 and the third,
"Innocent!: seven critical flaws in the conviction of David Bain" came out in 2001. The fourth book
"Trial By Ambush: The Prosecutions Of David Bain"
was released in 2012. In this book, Karam accuses Robin Bain of the
murders of his wife and three of their children before shooting himself.
"
Wikipedia entry: "Joseph Francis "Joe" Karam (born 21 November 1951) is a former
New Zealand representative
rugby footballer who played for the
All Blacks.
After retiring from rugby, he became a businessman. However, he is most
notable for waging a successful 15-year campaign to have
David Bain's convictions for murder overturned, and a subsequent campaign seeking compensation for him that has not yet been resolved.
Background Karam was born in
Taumarunui to a
Lebanese father and Irish mother. He grew up on the family farm near Raurimu and attended
St. Patrick's College, Silverstream.
[1]
Rugby union career: A first XV player at Saint Patrick's, Karam scored 138 of the schools 239 points during the 1967 season.
[2] That year he was a North Island secondary schoolboys representative.
[3] He spent the 1971 season with
Horowhenua. He was selected for
Wellington's South Island tour in 1972, becoming the youngest-ever player picked to represent
Wellington.
[citation needed] An extremely hard trainer at a club level, Karam was named as an
All Black for the 1972–73 tour of the British Isles and France. He played 10
test matches for the
All Blacks between 1972 and 1975.
[3] Rugby league career: Karam switched codes in 1975, signing a three-year deal with the
Glenora Bears in the
Auckland Rugby League
competition $20,000 a year. Karam was horrified that players on the UK
tour of 1971 got a pound a day as their living allowance while rugby
officials "were flying around the world drinking champagne like it was
going out of fashion". For players of "modest employment" slogging it
out on the field for their country it meant that "their wife and
children were starving back home".
[1] He scored 160 points for the Bears in 1976, winning the Painter
Rosebowl Trophy as top point scorer. He won the trophy again in 1977.
Karam was selected for
Auckland almost immediately, playing in six games in 1976 and scoring 53 points. This including playing in Auckland's 17–7 defeat of
New South Wales City.
[4]
He played in one game for Auckland in 1977, kicking six goals. By the
final year of his contract, Karam couldn't break into the
Glenora side, being succeeded by Warwick Freeman. He reportedly found
the tackling work rate to be far more demanding than in rugby union.
[5]
Support for David Bain: Main article:
Bain family murders: Karam is known for his many years of unqualified support for
David Bain,
who was convicted in 1995 of murdering all five members of his family.
Karam's research and sustained pressure on the justice system culminated
in an appeal to the
Privy Council in Britain in May 2007, at which Bain's conviction was overturned. The Privy Council found there had been a substantial
miscarriage of justice,
quashed his convictions and ordered a retrial. After his convictions
were quashed, Karam allowed Bain to stay at his house in the
Waikato on bail prior to the retrial two years later. Bain stayed for about three months before moving to
Auckland.
[6] The new trial was held in 2009 and Bain was found not guilty on all five charges.
[7] Without Karam's support, it is unlikely there would ever have
been a retrial. His interest in the case began in 1996, when he read a
newspaper article about "an old music teacher and a bunch of young,
long-haired university students" trying to raise money for Bain's appeal
by selling jam.
[8]
He went and gave them money. He began to study the evidence presented
at the original trial and began to feel something was wrong with the
case.
[9] He went to visit Bain in
prison in Christchurch and subsequently visited him over 200 times.
[9] According to media commentator
Paul Holmes, Karam was appalled at the way the family, the Police and the Fire Service arranged to burn the Bain house down.
[10]
Based on his extensive research over many years, Karam wrote four books about David Bain's case. The first was
"David and Goliath: the Bain family murders" published in 1997. Karam made accusations against two police officers in
David and Goliath
as a result of which he was sued for defamation. (He won that case as
well.) The book created a media furore. Karam appeared regularly on
Holmes and 'did a thousand other media interviews'.
[1] The second book,
"Bain and Beyond" was published in 2000 and the third,
"Innocent!: seven critical flaws in the conviction of David Bain" came out in 2001. The fourth book
"Trial By Ambush: The Prosecutions Of David Bain"
was released in 2012. In this book, Karam accuses Robin Bain of the
murders of his wife and three of their children before shooting himself.
[11] Karam was paid $424,480 by Legal Services for his legal work in
support of David Bain. Commissioner Nigel Fyfe approved the payment
describing Karam's "unique circumstances", and said his legal assistance
to Bain's defence was "exceptional" and the "equivalent to a
non-qualified legal executive..."
[12]
The personal cost; While supporting Bain, Karam spent his "considerable fortune" on the case.
[13]
He'd become wealthy in various business ventures including hamburger
bars and country pubs and the country's first major independent vending
machine company. He had more than 20 investment properties, a launch and
racehorses and lived on a 10-acre property in
Clevedon.
Karam says the crusade cost him millions and his friends estimated his
personal losses could be as much as $4 million in terms of his time,
loss of earnings and costs of legal and forensic experts.
[14]
He spent it in his pursuit of the case and ended up living in 15 to 20
different rental houses over the past decade while trying to prove
Bain's innocence.
[13]
He received some compensation prior to the retrial by working as a
researcher and investigator for Bain's legal team, where he was paid up
to $95 an hour.
[9][13] Karam acknowledges that fighting the case has taken its toll on
him over the years. Interviewed in the New Zealand Herald in 2007 under
the headline
Joe Karam: Freedom Fighter, he said, "For many
years, the mainstream media, judiciary, and politicians just thought of
me as a raving redneck who'd lost the plot."
[13]
He stopped socialising with rich-list friends because people would
inevitably "buttonhole him about the case" and he felt compelled to put
them straight – "destroying the dinner party" in the process. He said
that "every morning for two years, he would wake up, sink to the edge of
the bed and cry".
[1]
When asked what motivated him to keep going, he said it was because of
his "innate hatred of unfairness and urge to help those less fortunate".
[13]
Defamation cases: Karam
also took legal action to defend himself in pursuit of the case. In
addition to being sued for defamation by two police officers, he took on
the media with litigation against TVNZ, North and South magazine and
the New Zealand Herald.
[13]
He sued journalist Rosemary McLeod over an article that cast doubt on
his motives for supporting Bain. They settled out of court.
[1] In 2011 he sued Trade Me for defamation over 349 posts on the website's public message boards about Bain.
[15]In 2012, Karam began legal proceedings against Kent Parker and Victor Purkiss for defamation.
[16]
Parker and Purkiss were opposed to David Bain receiving compensation
and made numerous derogatory comments about Karam on a number of
websites.
[17]
In April 2014, Justice Patricia Courtney identified about 50 defamatory
statements published on Facebook and on a private website by Parker and
Purkiss, and awarded Karam $535,000. Parker admitted the defamation
under cross-examination and was ordered to pay $350,500. Purkiss, who
made defamatory posts on Facebook and the website Counterspin, was
ordered to pay $184,500.
[18]The judgement can be found here.
[19] Karam was also awarded $64,774 in costs, and $11,350
disbursements. Journalist Jock Anderson said it was unlikely Karam would
ever receive any of the money because Purkiss left the country and
Parker was bankrupt.
[12]
Karam also sued Fairfax NZ because articles on stuff.co.nz drew
attention to the websites that contained the defamatory comments by
Parker and Purkiss, but Fairfax settled out of court. Karam said the
public campaign against his integrity had been the "worst four years" of
his life.
[20]
The Innocence Project: Karam
believes the fact that it took 13 years to get Bain's conviction
overturned shows how flawed the New Zealand justice system is. In 2007
he said he planned to set up an organisation similar to the Innocence
Project in the US, where those with skills and resources offer their
help pro bono, like a support club for single crusaders such as himself,
Keith Hunter and Mike Kalaugher (the
Scott Watson campaigners).
[1] An attempt to establish a New Zealand Innocence Project was made
in 2009 by a group of lawyers concerned about the life sentence given to
Alan Hall.
[21] In 2013, the project was re-launched out of the
University of Otago, and has now been officially accepted as a branch of the Global Innocence network, becoming the world’s 63rd innocence project.
[22] Following the Privy Council decision to overturn the murder convictions of
Mark Lundy,
Karam said the Lundy case shows again that "an independent body is
needed to review potential miscarriages of justice". He says it is too
hard for someone to fight their case from prison when the Governor
General and the police effectively determine whether the original
conviction is accurate.
[23] Mark Lundy was convicted at his retrial in 2015.
[24]
Publications:
The entire Wikipedia entry can be read at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Karam
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PASSAGE OF THE DAY:
(From "One Angry Man.") "His bookshelves look like a recommended reading list for Social
Justice Crusaders 101: Beyond Reasonable Doubt by David Yallop, In the
Name of the Law by David Rose, and everything ever written by John
Grisham. His favourite movie? 12 Angry Men. They are fuel for his fire:
he relies on past victories to give him hope. It is important to Karam that people believe in what they do: he
believes in the sanctity of a fair trial."
See also a fascinating profile of Joe Karam - One Angry Man - by Amanda Spratt, published by The New Zealand Listener on April 21, 2018, at the link below; Sub-Heading: "Winning is everything for Joe Karam, long-time
campaigner for the release of convicted murderer David Bain. But as he
awaits the Privy Council decision on the case, which could come at any
time, he feels that he is also being judged." He had it all. A loving family, successful businesses and
an All Black jersey in a wardrobe full of Italian style. His kids went
to Auckland's King's College, he drove big cars, he could make a grand
in an afternoon. In the champagne days of the 90s, Joseph Francis Karam was a
risk-taking millionaire with a generous disposition and a talent for
giving things a good spit and polish. He owned 25 investment properties
and a winning racehorse. Every year he'd hire a marquee at the races for
friends and family. With a galloping enthusiasm for life and an
entertaining line in braggadocio, Karam was a middle-aged colt with a
nose for making money and an appreciative eye for the fillies. Ten years down the track, the friends and fortune have gone. The
woman he loved left him, he sold his home and he doesn't bother going to
dinner parties any more, sick of them ending in an argument and a
walk-out. And what few people know is that every morning for two years,
Joe Karam, former All Black, successful entrepreneur and self-appointed
crusader for justice, would wake up, sink to the edge of the bed and
cry. "I had to get up and fight the battle all over again by myself ...
None of my friends have stuck by me. None ... One of the hardest things
has been the loneliness. I'm the only bugger left. No one's there to pat
you on the back." Depending on the opinions of five law lords at the Privy Council, the
fight may soon be over for both convicted mass murderer David Bain and
the man who has spent the past 11 years campaigning for his release.
Karam's public credibility has become so fused to his crusade for Bain's
release that in a way the court will also be passing judgment on him. Karam lives in Te Kauwhata, an up-and-coming settlement off the
Auckland-Hamilton highway. He got the brick house - a deceased estate -
for a bargain last year. Brian, the widower owner who died at 91, hadn't
touched a thing since the 1960s, leaving Karam with tearaway gardens,
exhausted chocolate-box wallpaper and a lot of potential. And one ageing
peacock - that he calls Brian - desperately holding on to his last
shaky tail feather. The paper trail from the Bain case is hidden in the garage in several
floor-to-ceiling shelving units. If Karam does not know off the top of
his head how many pairs of trainers Bain owned, he knows exactly what
page to find it on. For a man who says he's not in too deep, it's a
curious skill to boast about. Karam well remembers the day in 1996 when he read the newspaper
article about "an old music teacher and a bunch of young, long-haired
university students" trying to raise money for Bain's appeal by selling
jam. He speaks in a tone that could be exasperation from telling it so
many times or frustration at a system that makes people do such a thing
for justice: he rode in and gave them money. Karam also split from his wife that year. They remain friends. It
wasn't his crusade that broke them up: the marriage was over before he
began his affair with the Bain case, he says. If anything, the
separation drove him to it. Vulnerable and maybe a little disillusioned,
Karam was an accident waiting for the Bain case to happen. With his interest piqued by Bain's exuberant first lawyer Michael
Guest, Karam read through the trial material. By the time he had become
angered enough at the perceived injustices to write David and Goliath,
two main pieces of evidence stood out as troubling: the time the
computer, which contained a purported suicide note and admission of
guilt from father Robin Bain, was turned on; and the photos and
statements from police about where a lens from a pair of glasses said to
be worn by David that day was found. But in those early weeks, Karam says he was most swayed by meeting
Bain: believing himself to be a good judge of character, Karam thought
it "odd" that anyone could think this guileless man was a killer. He says the 11-year war was the fault of the police. Besides the
"millions" he says it has cost him directly and in lost earnings, the
toll so far includes a Police Complaints Authority review, a judicial
review, two hearings by the Court of Appeal, a high-profile defamation
suit, two Privy Council hearings and several settlements between Bain
and various media organisations. They started it, says Karam, by
attacking him personally as if he were "some sort of hellraiser". He
believes he had no choice but to fight back. "Two firms of private investigators were hired to follow me around.
My phone was tapped. It was like the KGB. That was what I was subjected
to." It emerged in court during the defamation trial against Karam that a
private investigator had indeed been hired by the two officers taking
the case: the sleuth was hired to investigate Karam's finances and to
check the statements he was making about the two men. There is no
evidence that the investigators tapped his phone. "People think that I've had an obsession, which means that I've got
so emotionally and every other way involved in this that I'm prepared to
stop at nothing to try to get my belief believed by other people. But
what really happened," he says, "is that every step of the way it wasn't
really my decision. There's always another battle to fight. And I have
won every battle. "The police have come at me again and again. They've tried to keep me down. But every time Joe Karam rises like a phoenix." Some of his case rests for validity on the supposition of police
conspiracy: if I knew police like he did, says Karam, I'd understand. He also took up the case when others didn't, he says, because he was
"naïve" enough to believe that the police would be horrified by the
inaccuracies he had uncovered, and because he is "a thinker". "People ask me what I do, and I say, I think. That's how I make my
money. I spend a lot of time on my own and you can make a lot more money
thinking than you can working. With the Bain case, I think about things
that never dawn on other people." As an example, he says he was the only one who thought about what
possible motive David would have to suddenly shoot his family. Discussing the case with Karam can be infuriating. He knows every
detail and uses a fair bit of that old spit and polish to make his
arguments seem shiny and convincing. He states boldly that "we now know
Robin Bain was psychotic", but the only new evidence since the trial was
that Robin was clinically depressed. Karam is defensive when challenged, and still bitter about a magazine
article by journalist Rosemary McLeod that cast doubt on his motives
for supporting Bain. He sued: her publication settled out of court.
Another victory. Police, of course, beg to differ with Karam's version of events.
Karam got personal as well, making accusations against individual police
in David and Goliath, which led to the defamation trial (Karam won).
Since Karam's involvement, a Police Complaints Authority report, a
Ministry of Justice inquiry and a Court of Appeal decision have found
that although the police could have been more thorough, sound evidence
for Bain's conviction remained. For Karam, this shows how flawed the justice system is. He plans to
set up an organisation similar to the Innocence Project in the US, where
those with skills and resources offer their help pro bono, like a
support club for single crusaders such as himself, Keith Hunter and Mike
Kalaugher (the Scott Watson campaigners). But he'll probably only do it
if he wins. "People like winners, not losers, especially when it comes to money.
If I won, I would be able to expound my views with a degree of
importance. People would listen. I would have the success to act as a
mentor [to other crusaders] and to pull them along." For Karam, victory is important. Friends say he strives to win to the highest level, but only if they're causes he believes in. But he has always had a strong sense of justice. At 16, he seriously
considered becoming a priest. He later read a book about the existence
of God that served only to prove the opposite, so he converted to
another religion, rugby. But, he says, he has always been "pastoral" and
finds it "difficult to walk past a person with a problem". Friends say
he'd be the first one to offer help when they needed it. The eldest child and only son of his Lebanese father and Irish
mother, Karam had a blessed childhood on the family farm just out of
Raurimu. They weren't rich, but there was no great hardship. His sisters
went to Horowhenua College, while Karam was sent to St Patrick's
Catholic boys' college in Silverstream, Upper Hutt. He was, in a sense, an underdog: a country kid thrown in "with all
these kids who had everything. They moaned about the food and that there
was nothing to do on Friday night. I treasured it." He grabbed every opportunity: he was a member of the public-speaking
team, a prefect and even played a Maori boy in the 1968 school
production. He was liked, he says, but didn't court popularity: he'd be
the one training while his friends were smoking by the river. He excelled in sport. Other students could run faster and kick better, he says, but they didn't use their brains like he did. His notebooks of that time reveal much about Karam's fastidiousness
and determination. From 14 on, he kept meticulous records of all his
games with the First XV: the venue, the teams, scores (half-time and
fulltime), players and positions, tries and penalties (for and against),
the conditions and a critical but fair, and always optimistic,
commentary on their performance, including his own. Each page is
numbered: on the back page he has included an index. Against Taita in
1968: "We played a shocking game ... and my kicking was very poor ...
however, we look forward to better things." Karam shows me a newspaper clipping that he says will help to get "a
better understanding" of what kind of person he is. It is a write-up of
his "outstanding" performance at an interschool athletics tournament. It
attributes much of the school's win to Karam: the saviour of St
Patrick's. Better things did soon come to Karam: the youngest-ever player picked
to represent Wellington, he is widely accepted as one of the best All
Black fullbacks ever. Karam was even better known for being the first high-profile union
player to defect to league, joining an Auckland club in 1975 for $20,000
a year. Teammates cried when they heard the news, he says: it was like
being excommunicated from the Catholic Church. His move had much in common with his decision to stick with the Bain
case: he saw hypocrisy and injustice in rugby management. Karam was
horrified by the financial burden that players experienced. On the UK
tour of 1971, they got a pound a day as their living allowance. It was
enough, says Karam, for a pint of beer in a London pub, and for players
of "modest employment" slogging it out on the field for their country it
meant that "their wife and children were starving back home". At that time, he says, rugby officials "were flying around the world drinking champagne like it was going out of fashion". "It was a form of protest. I've always been, well, people might say
obnoxious," he says. "I've never been afraid to do what I wanted to do
even when it doesn't fit the pattern." His decision wasn't just based on principle, though: Karam, by now
newly married, knew he didn't have many seasons left, and, ever the
entrepreneur, took the money. Karam wonders whether, if he hadn't been an All Black, his campaign
would have gained so much traction. He expresses dismay that All Blacks,
with their high public profile, contribute so little to society. A few years ago, he attended an All Black centenary celebration and
was overwhelmed by the response he got. "It's not exaggerating to say
more than 20 wives of players that I met over the years came up to me
and said quietly, 'Well done, Joe, I think what you're doing is
fantastic. I wish that my husband and all of his cronies would do
something. They think that their lives start and end down at the local
rugby club. It's a shame they won't take a better interest in society.'" He doesn't subscribe to "the Lion Red mentality" that life is "rugby,
racing and beer", and that, he says, is one of the reasons the rugby
fraternity view him with "a great deal of suspicion". "If they look at what I'm doing too closely, all it would do is force
them to examine their conscience, which they wouldn't really want to
have to look at, because who are the All Blacks who have become such
great leaders? Where are the All Blacks who have stood up for anything
that is actually really that admirable?" What, I ask, about John Kirwan fronting a campaign for mental health? "I don't think he's putting his life out to help others. Where do we
see examples of All Blacks stepping outside their comfort zone with
possibly a little bit of personal risk to do something that actually
helps New Zealand society? We all think All Blacks are gods, so they
must be great leaders. But start analysing it. It's bloody dreadful that
All Blacks don't individually do more." He appears to have forgotten
men like Sir Wilson Whineray. Whether Karam is, as he believes, doing society any good remains to
be seen. We'll probably never know. Even he admits that the Bain case
has become so layered that no one will ever know with certainty what
happened at 65 Every St in 1994. Karam may not have gone into this most unlikely of partnerships for
the fame, but it is clear that he has enjoyed the attention. The furore
when David and Goliath was launched was, he says, "incredible". He
appeared regularly on Holmes, blew the TV1 show's ratings through the
roof, and did a thousand other media interviews, without so much as a
personal assistant to manage his calls. The journalists who wooed him have since lost interest: Holmes, who once wrote that "I love my friend, Joe Karam", never calls. Karam repeatedly talks about how unique he is, and what an underdog
he is. He is the only New Zealand citizen, he says, to be sued by the
police with their mighty resources. (In fact, two individual police
officers, not the department, sued Karam for defamation over allegations
made in his book.) It seems everyone - police, the courts, the NZ Herald, even the
Montana Book Awards judges - has had it in for him. David and Goliath
remains one of the best-selling books in New Zealand, he says, but he
wasn't even nominated for a Montana. When he talks about the Bain case, he refers back to himself and
about finding evidence that is "good for me" rather than "good for
David". His bookshelves look like a recommended reading list for Social
Justice Crusaders 101: Beyond Reasonable Doubt by David Yallop, In the
Name of the Law by David Rose, and everything ever written by John
Grisham. His favourite movie? 12 Angry Men. They are fuel for his fire:
he relies on past victories to give him hope. It is important to Karam that people believe in what they do: he
believes in the sanctity of a fair trial. It explains his view on Osama
bin Laden. He doesn't condone what bin Laden has done, but unlike George
W Bush, says Karam, at least bin Laden believes in what he stands for. The year of the Crewe murders, Karam broke his kneecap and while
recuperating became engrossed in the investigation. It might have left a
mark on his subconscious. In David and Goliath, he writes that he had
to remind himself that Thomas was found guilty twice before his release.
And the Bain case, he says, is bigger than Thomas's in terms of its
impact on New Zealand history. "The thing with causes célèbres of this nature - miscarriages of
justice like Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, the Guildford Four and the
Birmingham Six - is that you see history repeating itself. You even get
posthumous pardons. When truths are hidden, they eat away at people
until they attack." The loneliness has consumed some of Karam. His three children,
Richard, 30, Matt, 28, and Simone, 24, have stuck by him. When he talks
about them, he is engaging, enthusiastic and happy. His friends, he
says, have not been as loyal. "I understand why. It's a lot to put up with ... They'd say, 'Do we
invite Joe Karam for dinner? Well, if you want a row during the second
course.'" He admits that the rows might have been as much his fault as anyone's
and that he relegated relationships, and every? thing else, to second
place. But, he says, he needed all his energy to fight. His one true regret seems to be his break-up with runner Allison Roe.
He wanted to marry her, but she couldn't take the fallout from his
campaign any more. It was the first time he'd ever been dumped, and it
probably did him good, he says. Karam put himself out to pasture then: it was easier, he says, to be
alone. He's coming right now, though. He once remarked to a journalist
that he knew he was down when he'd lost his appetite for women. He seems
to have found it again. Today his shirt is a little faded but still Lacoste, the shoes Prada:
even when he was penniless and renting, he always dressed as if he had
money. Karam seems to equate wealth with happiness. He's got plans: there
are his franchises, his coffee business and property. He's already made
$1 million in the past 18 months through investments. He wants to
renovate the house; his new granddaughter, Lola, and her mother are
close by, and there'll be another book. He is cautiously optimistic about the Privy Council's decision. One
suspects if he is wrong, it will be like a death in the family. Karam
knows it is also his chance for vindication. "If we lose, the jury will be out on me. There'll be those who admire
and respect me and then there's the Establishment that will say we were
right all along and that Karam was a loose cannon." Of course, if the Privy Council upholds Bain's conviction, it's not
over - where there's life, there's hope, he says. But for now he waits,
sitting in his black leather chair in the corner with a cigarette and a
bottle of sauvignon, dropping ash on the carpet, listening to a
recording of Winston Churchill's greatest speeches, waiting to hear
whether he is winner or widower. The only bugger left."
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: I am monitoring this
case/issue. Keep your eye on the Charles Smith Blog for reports on
developments. The Toronto Star, my previous employer for more than
twenty incredible years, has put considerable effort into exposing the
harm caused by Dr. Charles Smith and his protectors - and into
pushing for reform of Ontario's forensic pediatric pathology system.
The Star has a "topic" section which focuses on recent stories related
to Dr. Charles Smith. It can be found at: http://www.thestar.com/topic/charlessmith. Information on "The Charles Smith Blog Award"- and its nomination process - can be found at: http://smithforensic.blogspot.com/2011/05/charles-smith-blog-award-nominations.html Please send any comments or information on other cases and issues of interest to the readers of this blog to: hlevy15@gmail.com.
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