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Cleared Cairns: 'It's been hell'

Tuesday, December 01 2015 by SNTV
  • Former New Zealand cricketer Chris Cairns reacts after he was cleared of perjury and perverting the course of justice.

    SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Cairns, Former New Zealand cricket captain:

    "Other than being exhausted and very, very tired I'm just looking forward to getting home, seeing my family and being with them."

    "It's been hell for the last five years, in particular the last couple of years. Having won the legal case at the Royal Court of Justice and now here. At the start I couldn't hear the foreman, I didn't actualy know what he had said. And so when I saw Fitch's (Andrew Fitch-Holland) face and the jubilation there it came home to roost had occurred. I think I've been through the mill and now I've came out of the other side. I'm just a very happy man."

    "I think my reputation is completely scorched, burnt completely. It hasn't stopped me and it won't stop me. I'll keep going forward. I think that's the most important thing. For my dad back in New Zealand, he's a cricket man through and through. I'm not sure what cricket holds for me."

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