I just read in another thread where you say you knew the Bambers and their neighbours etc. So you are hardly an outsider, but I am, living thousands of miles away and the case wasn't news in NZ to any extent, and when I read the judges summing up to me it was erroneous and biased on my first reading of it. Later as I develop a greater understanding of the case maybe I'll change my view.
Yes, I do realize that it must be difficult for you -it would be the same for me if I tried to rationalize a case which had caused controversy in NZ- and I try, not always successfully, to make allowances for it. I'm aware that you're trying to do, in a few months, that which it's taken some of us several years to do.
It would be more correct to say that some of my friend, and several of my neighbours, were close friends with the Bambers over many years. Several being young marrieds together. I do have a link, albeit a VERY tenuous one, because of my own adoption.