westoelad wrote: There were allegations of match fixing for which he was cleared of in court but don't recall any drug allegations .
Cairns only got away with it because the ICCs own Anti-Corruption officer that Brendan McCullum approached whistleblowing to bungled the whole process. Rather than make an official report documenting then actioning against the allegations, he wrote down what McCullum said in his personal diary, then misplaced said diary and lost all of the evidence without ever documenting it in full in writing.
In court, said officer then couldn't remember the verbal conversation they with any clarity, saying he couldnt remember even if McCullum had directly and specifically mentioned match-fixing, but that his understanding and accusation of such against Cairns was clear even if reading between the lines. The defence then turned that against both to make it look like they were contradicting each other and lying, and that their words after that were contradictory. Even when 28 witnesses turned up to say McCullum was very specific with the fact Cairns had approached him to fix.
The judge also bizarrely told the jury to take Vincent's words with caution, as in his opinion Vincent had a lot to gain from passing blame to Cairns - ignoring the fact Vincent had only admitted match fixing when hearing about the case, and far from having anything to gain, had incriminated himself and got banned for life solely on the fact he wanted justice.
Cairns is about as innocent as OJ Simpson.