Retired coroner Wallace Bain's new book speaks for the dead to protect the living
10 May, 2021 06:15 PM
4 minutes to read
Former Coroner Wallace Bain has written a book.
Not much gets to retired Rotorua coroner Wallace Bain, but when he saw his newborn twin grandsons sleeping side-by-side in pepi pods, he broke down crying.
After 28 years of dealing with death - and
in some of the most heartbreaking of circumstances - Bain has learned to keep his emotions in check.
One trick to keep himself together when delivering particularly sad findings was to raise his voice in the tricky parts.
Retired Rotorua Coroner Wallace Bain chats about his new book. Photo / Andrew Warner