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Chris Cairns

Predictable, after the judge's summing up.

Also, there was no money to show that it had ever happened, so he either blew it all of it's still hidden.

Or it never happened. Given the paucity of actual evidence that he'd cheated, the jury went with the obvious choice.
 
Well presumably they are now going to have to charge Mcullum and others who testified against him with perjury. This could be fun.
 
The Atheist said:
Predictable, after the judge's summing up.

Also, there was no money to show that it had ever happened, so he either blew it all of it's still hidden.

Or it never happened. Given the paucity of actual evidence that he'd cheated, the jury went with the obvious choice.
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Rumour has it it was dodgey diamonds to his India companys

Hence his move into diamond dealership

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Rumour gets no verdicts.

Also, whatever he did or didn't do, I find it hard to believe he'd be working as a labourer in Auckland (which he was) if he had money salted away somewhere.
 
If I was facing 7 years I would put up a front

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The Atheist said:
Rumour gets no verdicts.

Also, whatever he did or didn't do, I find it hard to believe he'd be working as a labourer in Auckland (which he was) if he had money salted away somewhere.
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True, but he (Cairns) said at one point as his cricket career wound down, his income dried up to a trickle. If he spent a lot of time living in the UK, I could imagine anything he might have salted away would have disappeared pretty quickly, especially if he had no real post-cricket career to fall back on to keep the money rolling in. Plus there was that fudge factory, maybe he lost a lot of his savings in that?

Anyway, I think it would have almost impossible to get a conviction without a hard paper trail (or a more compelling recorded conversation), and how would you ever get one? Everyone involved would just claim any money/diamonds/etc were for "promotional work" and who could claim otherwise.
 
I read an interesting interview with Daryl Tuffy, whom while a lot of claims were made about what he was supposed to have done along with Cairns, was never called by either side. Anyway he talked to a reporter and his basic claim was that Vincent was trying to save his own skin by slinging mud and none of what he was claiming was said by or happened with Cairns and himself actually did. He was at that time considering legal action against Vincent.
 
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