That is the life. interview with Brendon McCullum he speaks extensively about the whole Cairns business. TONIGHT ` BRENDON MCCULLUM ON THE BIGGEST TEST OF HIS CAREER ` I WAS PREPARED TO STAND UP, EVEN UNDER PRESSURE AND UNDER FIRE. FACING CHRIS CAIRNS IN COURT. WOULD I DO IT AGAIN? YES, I WOULD. AND I'LL TAKE YOU BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE GABLE TOSTEE COURT CASE THAT'S CAPTURING ATTENTION ON BOTH SIDES OF THE TASMAN. AND LEGO FOR AFRICA, INCLUDING THIS 5000-PIECE MILLENNIUM FALCON FROM 'STAR WARS'. IT'S ALL PART OF A FATHER'S EXHIBIT OF LOVE FOR HIS SON, BUILT BLOCK BY BLOCK. DUE TO THE LIVE NATURE OF SEVEN SHARP, WE APOLOGISE FOR THE LACK OF CAPTIONS FOR SOME ITEMS. Lovely to see you. Brendon McCullum is behind one of our most memorable sporting moments the glorious triple century at the basin. BUT ALONG WITH THE HIGHS, HE'S ALSO FACED SOME LOWS. TOMORROW THE FORMER NZ CRICKET CAPTAIN RELEASES HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY, 'DECLARED', IN WHICH HE DESCRIBES HIS INVOLVEMENT IN THE CHRIS CAIRNS TRIAL. TONIGHT MCCULLUM OPENS UP FOR THE FIRST TIME ABOUT WHY HE TOOK THE STAND AGAINST HIS OLD MATE. HE SPOKE EXCLUSIVELY TO JEHAN CASINADER. LOW, TENSE MUSIC WHETHER THEY BELIEVED ME, WHETHER THEY DIDN'T, NONE OF THAT REALLY MATTERS. IT WASN'T ABOUT A 'GUILTY' OR 'NOT GUILTY' VERDICT; IT WAS A MATTER OF FULFILLING A MORAL OBLIGATION I FELT I HAD. BRENDON MCCULLUM ON THE CONTROVERSY SURROUNDING HIS OLD TEAMMATE. HE WAS ONE OF YOUR HEROES? (CHUCKLES SOFTLY) YEAH. HE WAS EVERYONE'S HERO BACK THEN, BUT IT'S DANGEROUS WHEN YOU MEET HEROES, I GUESS. MCCULLUM CLAIMED CHRIS CAIRNS APPROACHED HIM ABOUT MATCH-FIXING IN 2008. IT TOOK HIM THREE YEARS TO MAKE A STATEMENT TO CRICKET BOSSES. I JUST SIMPLY DIDN'T KNOW, I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND THAT, IF YOU WEREN'T TO REPORT IT, YOU WERE JUST AS IN THE GUN AS ANYONE THAT'S ACTUALLY APPROACHED YOU. ONCE I REALISED THAT, I STRAIGHT AWAY WENT AND REPORTED IT. WHEN CAIRNS WAS PUT ON TRIAL FOR PERJURY, MCCULLUM FLEW TO LONDON TO TESTIFY IN FRONT OF A JURY. WHY DID YOU DECIDE TO TESTIFY? I DIDN'T HAVE TO TESTIFY. I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND EITHER, AND I'M PRETTY THERE'S OTHERS WHO WOULDN'T HAVE DONE WHAT I DID, BUT, TO ME, I FELT I HAD AN OBLIGATION, AND ESPECIALLY AS CAPTAIN OF NZ, TO GO OVER AND TELL MY SIDE OF THE STORY. HIS CONFIDENTIAL STATEMENT HAD BEEN LEAKED TO THE PRESS. SOME OF THE MEDIA AROUND IT ALMOST PLACED ME ON TRIAL. MCCULLUM WAS CRITICISED FOR BEING DISLOYAL TO KIWI CRICKET. I WAS PREPARED TO STAND UP, EVEN UNDER PRESSURE AND UNDER FIRE FROM VARIOUS QUARTERS, AND DO WHAT I THOUGHT WAS MORALLY RIGHT AT THE TIME. HE WAS JOINED BY OTHER HIGH-PROFILE WITNESSES, INCLUDING LOU VINCENT AND SHANE BOND. WHAT WAS IT LIKE STANDING UP IN THAT COURTROOM? OH, IT WAS HORRIBLE. I DIDN'T WANT TO BE THERE. (SIGHS) THE LAST THING I WANTED TO DO WAS BE IN A COURTROOM TESTIFYING AGAINST ONE OF MY OLD MATES. IT'S CERTAINLY NOT HOW I WAS BROUGHT UP AS WELL. DO I WISH ANYONE GO THROUGH IT? ABSOLUTELY BLOODY NOT, BUT WOULD I DO IT AGAIN? YES, I WOULD. CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICK AFTER AN EIGHT-WEEK TRIAL,... REPORTERS CLAMOUR I'M OFF FOR A BEER. ...CHRIS CAIRNS WAS FOUND NOT GUILTY ON ALL CHARGES. I THINK, REPUTATIONALLY, I'M COMPLETELY SCORCHED. AFTER THE VERDICT, HE WAS ASKED IF HE HAD A MESSAGE FOR MCCULLUM. UM,... 'WHY?' UNSETTLED MUSIC THE WAY IT ALL UNFOLDED AND THE FACT THAT IT BECAME ABOUT ME VERSUS HIM IS SOMETHING I JUST NEVER UNDERSTOOD. UNDER PRESSURE, PEOPLE SHOW THEIR TRUE CHARACTER. IT'S NOT THE CHARACTER I THOUGHT I KNEW, AND... I GUESS I CAN NEVER FORGIVE HIM FOR THAT. HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT CHRIS CAIRNS NOW? I'M SURE HE'LL GET ON WITH HIS LIFE AND I'LL GET ON WITH MINE, AND LET'S HOPE THEY NEVER CROSS PATHS. I'M DONE WITH IT NOW, AND I WANT TO MOVE ON WITH THE REST OF MY LIFE, AND I SURE AS HELL HOPE THAT MY CAREER'S NOT DEFINED BY MY INVOLVEMENT WITH CHRIS CAIRNS. HE'D RATHER BE REMEMBERED FOR LEADING THE BLACKCAPS OUT OF DEFEAT AND TOWARDS STUNNING MOMENTS LIKE THIS. APPLAUSE, CHEERING A SUPERSTAR, A CRICKETING MASTER, AND HE CAN NOW STAND TALL ALONGSIDE THE GAME'S GREATS. I PLAYED THE GAME BECAUSE I WANTED TO TRY AND TEST MYSELF, I WANTED TO BE PART OF A TEAM, I WANTED TO REPRESENT MY COUNTRY, AND I WANTED TO HAVE A BLOODY GOOD TIME WHILE I WAS AT IT,... CHEERING ...AND I DID. CHEERING He's really say. He won't be remotely defined by that. The book Declared is out tomorrow. He gave a big speech in London. I was fair in that trial and was such a way key experience. Such a strange thing in a court room. Cairns and his lawyer said in a glass box within a court room. And the reason for that was? It's just what it is. You could barely see the jury off to the side. They were 12 regular English people who may not have heard of any of the people. It was a very odd thing that New Zealand had been transplanted to London. Over here we were watching that and all we saw was Cairns going to and from court. I'll never forget it. IT'S CERTAINLY BEEN ONE LONG WAIT. < HOW MANY DAYS HAVE YOU BEEN HERE? EIGHT DAYS. YES, AND THAT WAIT CONTINUES. SO AFTER THE BREAK WE GO BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE GABLE TOSTEE COURT CASE. PLUS ` LEGO WAS HIS LIFELINE... I DID A ROUGH TALLY AND IT WAS WELL IN EXCESS OF 100,000 PIECES. ...SO HOW IS ALL THIS NOW BEING USED TO HELP OTHERS? AND SOMETIMES YOU JUST NEED TO STOP AND SMELL THE FLOWERS,... THERE WE GO. LOOK AT THAT. ...AND THIS SLICE OF KIWI PARADISE IS JUST THE PLACE TO DO IT. MACKLEMORE AND RYAN LEWIS' 'DOWNTOWN' # DOWNTOWN. DOWNTOWN. # DOWNTOWN! # DOWNTOWN! # DOWNTOWN. # SHE HAS HER ARMS AROUND YOUR WAIST. VIEWER PICK - MASON WILLIAMS FOR HIS KIDS MOO AND CHARLIE. I like this video clip. I probably have the radio edit. The strings part. Maybe one of the speakers is broken my kitchen. IT'S THE CASE THAT'S CAPTIVATED PEOPLE ON BOTH SIDES OF THE TASMAN ` AUSTRALIAN GABLE TOSTEE ON TRIAL FOR THE MURDER OF NZER WARRIENA WRIGHT DURING A TINDER DATE. THE JURY'S NOW BEEN DELIBERATING FOR THREE DAYS, SO AS WE AWAIT A VERDICT, RUTH WYNN-WILLIAMS GRABBED HER MOBILE PHONE AND TOOK US BEHIND THE SCENES AS THE LARGE MEDIA CONTINGENT CONTINUES TO WAIT OUTSIDE COURT. LOW ELECTRONIC MUSIC < ARE YOU DOING RESEARCH? < HOW MANY DAYS HAVE YOU BEEN HERE? EIGHT DAYS. EIGHT DAYS. < EIGHT DAYS. MM-HM. < AND COUNTING? YES. HOW MANY HOURS HAVE WE BEEN WAITING NOW? THINK IT'S ABOUT NINE HOURS. THAT THERE ` WHAT IS THAT, NINE CAMERAS? ALL ONE NETWORK. < ONE NETWORK. They have come back this afternoon and asked yet another question and you wonder when the judge will say will have to let you go. IT'S A FASCINATING CASE THAT THE JURY HAS OBVIOUSLY HAD A DIFFICULT TIME DISSECTING. SO TO BREAK IT DOWN, I'M JOINED BY MASSEY UNIVERSITY LAW PROFESSOR CHRIS GALLAVIN. It's a difficult one. I've struggled with why they charged him with murder. If they don't get them on murder can they get on manslaughter? Manslaughter is the default. They go for the high watermark of murder, And if they don't get that in the jury still think that culpable homicide, they have manslaughter in default. At the same law in Australia is the New Zealand. Did he intimidate the victim? Answer must be yes. That's where the self defence defence comes in. If the jury believe in self defence, it gets acquitted as a juror, I would've said he did intimidated. Were her actions the result of intimidation? Were they entirely independent of what she acting in fear of her life and climbing over the balcony. That's why we have all this discussion about reasonableness, proximity, objective. The test is objective. It's what the jury think in the cold light of day was reasonable in all of the circumstances including the Fiji had a lot of alcohol. How do you decide it's the result of intimidation? Or I've had a lot of drink and I can climb over the balcony. It relates to the first question which is intimidation. Is it merely going to come and hit you or serious intimidation to the extent a driver to feeling all she could do was climb over the balcony. If you take yes for intimidation then it gets you to manslaughter. It depends on what a intimidation was. It has to be of such gravity that she was running in fear of her life. My understanding of murder is intent to kill a person. I can't get my head around having her locked on a balcony is not intending her to die. We haven't got the years as far as the stages are concerned. She died as a result of your actions. An unequivocal yes. The new lock and manslaughter. If it's yes to all of those. And from the we moved to consider whether it's murder. The law in Queensland is whether there is an intention in his mind before this was an object of test. Now for murder we had to decide whether he intended to kill her and his actions or he intended to commit GBH. That the jury says yes to either of those two, it's murder. That's a massive leap to lock someone on a balcony and then go he knew she would throw herself and die. It's not locking on the balcony. It's the three related to her. There's been cases before we threats have been made through locked doors before and they can't get to them immediately. It's the gravity of the threat. He was the one in control of the door being locked or not. If he's yelled I'm going to kill you through the door, then that's the test. In a sense, don't get sidetracked by the notion of the locked door. Having said that, if you wanted to kill her, why has the locked on the balcony? The question that come in this afternoon they want to know is language considered force. The gone away to work that out. Would you regard languages force? I should leave it to the judge, but yes. It is. We now does call it assault. The threatening of an assault of grievous bodily harm all killing especially at the person in the mind believes they are about to be carried out. The essence of this case is the has been no actual infliction. If the action of the person who has died, but it's we did that was a necessary consequence of the three. If they can't make a decision and the judge let them go, then what? I hung jury and in the prosecution will decide if they prosecuted again. They've all got to agree. Thanks, Chris Gallivan. HOW MANY STAR WARS LEGO MODELS IS IT REASONABLE TO OWN? 20? 100? TRY 400. THAT'S RIGHT ` 400 INDIVIDUAL FIGURES OR MODELS. WOULD WE SAY THAT'S OBSESSIVE? ABSOLUTELY, BUT IT'S ALSO REASONABLE WHEN LEGO IS A LIFELINE FOR YOUR ONLY SON. TIM WILSON WITH A MAN, HIS BOY AND A LOVE BIG ENOUGH TO FILL A GALAXY. 'STAR WARS' THEME DARRIN WORSFOLD HAS A THING FOR 'STAR WARS'. LOOK, IT'S NATURAL. WHAT TEENAGE BOY FROM THE '70S DIDN'T LIKE STAR WARS? I JUST THOUGHT IT WAS SUCH AN AWESOME MOVIE WHEN I SAW IT. HAD A FASCINATION WITH IT EVER SINCE. HE'S ALSO PRETTY KEEN ON LEGO AND COLLECTS A LITTLE BIT. I DID A ROUGH TALLY, AND IT WAS WELL IN EXCESS OF 100,000 PIECES. THE BIGGEST MODEL IS 5500 PIECES. FOR SOME REASON, PEOPLE JUDGE HIM. I WOULDN'T SAY I'M OBSESSED, BUT I THINK MY WIFE WOULD DISAGREE, AND MY CHILDREN WOULD DEFINITELY DISAGREE. SOMBRE PIANO MUSIC FORTUNATELY, HIS SON JOHNATHAN LOVES LEGO TOO BECAUSE HE KNOWS HOW THE OBSESSION REALLY BEGAN. PROBABLY WHEN I WAS IN HOSPITAL, THAT'S WHERE IT ALL STARTED FROM. DAD WON A MODEL COMPETITION WITH THE X-WING. HE BROUGHT IT TO PASS THE TIME WHEN I WAS QUITE SICK. YOU SEE, WHEN JOHNATHAN WAS BORN, HIS BOWELS DIDN'T WORK, AND HE WAS REALLY REALLY SICK. STARSHIP HOSPITAL BECAME A SECOND HOME. I LOST COUNT THE NUMBER OF TIMES WE WERE TOLD HE WON'T SURVIVE AND HE MIGHT NOT LIVE THROUGH THE NIGHT. I'D TAKE A MODEL THE NEXT DAY TO PASS THE TIME. A TIME OF TERROR. THE FEAR OF LOSING A CHILD, THE HELPLESSNESS THAT YOU FEEL BECAUSE YOU CAN'T CONTROL THE SITUATION,... THE DESPERATION, SOMETIMES. ALL OF IT THERE IN THE LEGO AND IN THIS KEEPSAKE FROM HIS MUM. EACH OF THE BUTTONS REPRESENTS A GENERAL ANAESTHETIC OR OPERATION I'VE HAD AND I'VE LIVED THROUGH. WHAT'S THE TOTAL? I THINK IT COMES TO 185. 185 OPERATIONS AND GENERAL ANAESTHETICS, 185 GRABS FOR LIFE. # WHEN THE ANGELS FLY. I'M STILL ALIVE TODAY, SO I'M PRETTY HAPPY ABOUT IT. THAT'S THE POINT OF THIS EXHIBITION ` GIVING BACK TO STARSHIP THROUGH 'STAR WARS', IN AN HONESTY BOX SHAPED LIKE ` WHAT ELSE ` A PIECE OF LEGO. WE'VE ALREADY RAISED OVER $1000, AND WE'VE BEEN GOING JUST A FEW DAYS. BECAUSE THE FAMILY THAT PLAYS TOGETHER ` THANKS TO STARSHIP ` STAYS TOGETHER. Lego just keeps on giving. One of the most successful companies in the world. All kids enjoy it. I'm still thinking about the toss the trial. I can't believe how languages such a crucial part of the trial. 12 regular people sitting near and you can see why it's taken so long. WE WANT YOU TO HAVE A THINK ABOUT YOUR COMMUNITY NOW. IS THERE SOMEONE DOING SOMETHING PRETTY SELFLESS TO HELP SOMEONE ELSE OUT? OR MAYBE YOU KNOW SOMEONE WHO'S JUST HAD A BIT OF A ROUGH TIME AND DESERVES A TREAT. WELL, IF YOU DO, WHY NOT NOMINATE THEM FOR OUR ASB GOOD AS GOLD SEGMENT. ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS GO TO OUR FACEBOOK PAGE AND TELL US THEIR STORY. WE'LL HAVE THE LATEST WINNER NEXT WEDNESDAY. SOMETIMES IN LIFE ALL YOU NEED IS AN IDEA. THE AMAZING THING IS THAT THOSE ORIGINAL MEMBERS HAD A DREAM. AND LOOK HOW FAR THAT DREAM HAS COME. IT'S ALWAYS MAGICAL. Good song there. Rock 'n' roll Hall of Fame. J Geils band. And more importantly, Joan Baez. A large number of people in the rock 'n' roll Hall of Fame today we just numpties. IT'S OCTOBER, AND FOR THOSE IN THE 'NAKI, THAT MEANS RHODODENDRONS ARE HITTING FULL BLOOM. THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WILL BE FLOCKING TO MY HOMETOWN OVER THE NEXT FEW WEEKS FOR THE RHODO FESTIVAL, AND PUKEITI GARDEN WILL NO DOUBT BE AT THE TOP OF MANY OF THE TO-DO LISTS, BECAUSE IT'S KIND OF A BIG DEAL IN THE GARDEN WORLD. REBECCA EDWARDS VENTURED TO THE BASE OF MT TARANAKI TO FIND OUT WHY. ELECTRONIC DANCE MUSIC YOU'LL HEAR THE TUI. TUI CALLS THE TREES THEMSELVES ARE GREAT GIANTS. AND THEY APPEAR AS THEY WOULD IN THE WILD IN THE HIMALAYAS. YEP, IT DOESN'T TAKE LONG TO REALISE PUKEITI IS NO ORDINARY GARDEN. IT'S DEFINITELY A JOURNEY TO GET HERE, BUT IT'S PART OF THE MAGIC. IT'S QUIET; IT'S INTRIGUING; THERE'S ALWAYS SOMETHING NEW AROUND THE CORNER. AND ANDREW AND LYN ARE NO ORDINARY BLOKES. SEE, LOOK AT THE SIZE OF IT. COMBINED, THE PAIR HAVE SPENT MORE THAN 60 YEARS... 'PARISIAN' IS ITS NAME. YEAH. A GOOD NAME. ...TENDING TO THIS RHODODENDRON SANCTUARY THAT'S NESTLED IN DENSE NATIVE NZ RAINFOREST. WE ARE THE ONLY RHODODENDRON GARDEN IN THAT KIND OF SETTING ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. AND THE WORLD HAS CERTAINLY BEEN TAKING NOTE,... MELLOW ELECTRONIC MUSIC ...WITH PUKEITI RECENTLY PICKED BY A TOP-NOTCH CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW JUDGE AS THE SECOND BEST GARDEN IN THE WORLD. I WAS ASTOUNDED AND THRILLED, BECAUSE HE LOOKED AT IT NOT AS AN ORDINARY BOTANICAL GARDEN BUT AS SOMETHING DIFFERENT. THAT DIFFERENCE COMES IN ITS UNIQUE BLEND OF NATIVE AND EXOTIC PLANTS,... IT COMES FROM NORTHERN INDIA IN THE HIMALAYAS AND IS ENDANGERED IN THE WILD. ...OFFERING A DIFFERENT VIEW... AND THERE WE GO. LOOK AT THAT. ...FROM EVERY VANTAGE POINT. IT'S THE FASCINATING THING ABOUT PUKEITI; THERE'S SO MANY DIFFERENT BITS. THE GARDEN'S IN THE MIDST OF A MASSIVE $4.1M MAKEOVER. IS IT STILL PRETTY MAGICAL WHEN YOU COME THROUGH HERE? IT'S ALWAYS MAGICAL. IT'S ALWAYS MAGICAL, AND I THINK THE AMAZING THING IS THAT THOSE ORIGINAL MEMBERS HAD A DREAM, AND THIS IS THE MANIFESTATION OF THAT DREAM. A DREAM THAT STARTED MORE THAN 60 YEARS AGO AND CONTINUES TODAY, TENDED WITH A WHOLE LOT OF LOVE. YEAH. THIS PLACE HAS JUST... IT'S REALLY BECOME PART OF WHO I AM. SO, YOU'VE GOT A PASSIONATE BUNCH LOOKING AFTER THINGS? SO WE'RE VERY LUCKY. TOO RIGHT. (CHUCKLES) TOO RIGHT, YES. MELLOW ELECTRONIC MUSIC CONTINUES Looking stunning is always BRILLIANT DECISION TODAY TO EXTEND STATE CARE FROM 17 UNTIL THE AGE OF 21. THERE WILL BE SOME WHO DON'T SEE THE NEED ` THOSE THAT LEFT SCHOOL EARLY AND STARTED EARNING A PAY PACKET AND FENDING FOR THEMSELVES AT THE AGE OF 16 ` BUT THE REALITY IS THE MAJORITY OF SCHOOL LEAVERS STILL HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THEY WANT TO DO WITH THEIR LIVES IN THEIR LATE TEENS AND EARLY 20S. THAT'S WHEN PARENTAL GUIDANCE IS SO CRUCIAL; YOU NEED THAT SOUNDING BOARD IF NOTHING ELSE. TO THINK A 17-YEAR-OLD, REGARDLESS OF THEIR UPBRINGING, IS READY FOR EVERYTHING THE BIG WORLD CAN THROW AT THEM ` THE GOOD AND THE BAD ` WITHOUT NEEDING ANYONE TO PROVIDE DIRECTION AND MORAL SUPPORT IS ABSURD. THIS IS THE LEAST WE CAN DO FOR OUR MOST VULNERABLE, EVEN IF IT'S COSTLY. TURNS OUT MORE AND MORE OF US WANT THE OPEN ROAD SPEED LIMIT RAISED, AND TO THAT I SAY, 'IT CAN'T COME SOON ENOUGH.' THE MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT DOES THE SURVEY WORK, AND THEIR NEW NUMBERS THIS WEEK SHOW THE PERCENTAGE THAT WANT IT RAISED IS UP SIGNIFICANTLY. THE GOVERNMENT SAYS THEY'RE LOOKING AT IT. ANY CAR EXPERT WILL TELL YOU SPEED IN AND OF ITSELF IN APPROPRIATE SITUATIONS IS NOT THE KILLER. IDIOTS BEHIND THE WHEEL IS THE PROBLEM; MAD DRIVING IN WET WEATHER IS THE PROBLEM; BOOZE IS THE PROBLEM. GOING 110 IN A STRAIGHT LINE IN A MODERN CAR ISN'T. SO AS THE MAJOR HIGHWAYS GET BETTER AND AS OUR CAR FLEET GETS INCREASINGLY IMPROVED IN THE SAFETY DEPARTMENT, 110 MAKES MORE AND MORE SENSE. 1 NEWS CAPTIONS BY ANTONY VLUG AND ALANA DRAYTON. SEVEN SHARP CAPTIONS BY JESSICA BOELL AND SHRUTIKA GUNANAYAGAM. CAPTIONS WERE MADE POSSIBLE WITH FUNDING FROM NZ ON AIR. COPYRIGHT ABLE 2016