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Speaker 1: In the second day of Philip Pokinghorn's trial has begun.

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Speaker 1: The former organdized surgeon is accused of murdering his wife,

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Speaker 1: Pauline Hannah, in April twenty twenty one, although his defense

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Speaker 1: claims she took her own life. So today the court

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Speaker 1: began to hear from those who first attended the scene

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Speaker 1: at the couple's remu were a home after Pokinghorn called

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Speaker 1: one one one as saying his wife was dead. We

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Speaker 1: have Chelsea Daniels there covering the trial. She's with us now, Hello,

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Speaker 1: Chelsea him What was the focus of today's evidence.

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Speaker 2: Well, just like you said, we heard from those who

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Speaker 2: first attended this scene the couple's renue a home. It

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Speaker 2: painted a picture of what happened that morning, what poking

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Speaker 2: Horn told first responders, and what he says happened the

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Speaker 2: night before. The pair had a drink or two in

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Speaker 2: their upstairs library and she cook to dinner. They watched

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Speaker 2: a bit of Netflix together before going to bed around

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Speaker 2: ten pm. He got up early around seven forty five

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Speaker 2: to make breakfast. Tent and he used another stairwell to

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Speaker 2: get to the kitchen, the closest to the master bedroom

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Speaker 2: and sleeping in but After that, he went to go

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Speaker 2: upstairs via another staircase, and that's when he finds Hannah

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Speaker 2: plumped leaning forward in a chair with a belt around

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Speaker 2: her neck.

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Speaker 1: What was it in the court about Polkinghorn's demeanor that morning?

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Speaker 2: Well, Saint John's charamedic Hannah and Mathison was one of

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Speaker 2: the first ambulance members actually at the Upland Road scene.

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Speaker 2: She told Barrister Brian Vicky as she was asking him

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Speaker 2: questions about that morning's event, he seemed calm.

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Speaker 3: Did he say anything about the patient that he knew

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Speaker 3: that she was dead our end?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that she was his wife.

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Speaker 3: How did he appear at this time when you were

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Speaker 3: speaking with.

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Speaker 5: Him fasionably calm, wasn't crying, didn't seem distressed, was answering

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Speaker 5: our questions appropriately? Yeah, gave full name and date of birth,

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Speaker 5: said that the patient had depression, but was unaware of

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Speaker 5: the names of any medications that the patient took.

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Speaker 3: Did the patient had depression that he did he just

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Speaker 3: say just that or did he say more than that

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Speaker 3: to describe?

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Speaker 5: But I can only recall him saying that, So.

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Speaker 2: I should say that other officers and those attending that morning,

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Speaker 2: some say he was calm, Some say he was wailing

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Speaker 2: and crying. A defense lawyer Ron Mansfield told the court

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Speaker 2: that Madison must deal with all kinds of states of

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Speaker 2: emotion in her line of work.

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Speaker 3: And I would have thought there's no ideal or standard

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Speaker 3: presentation of somebody. Would that be right?

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Speaker 4: That is correct?

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Speaker 5: Everyone responds differently.

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Speaker 3: Some people are broken down and can hardly speak, can

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Speaker 3: hardly move as one extreme. Yes, and then some people

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Speaker 3: are composed trying to deal with the situation and try

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Speaker 3: to ensure that they provide you with as much help

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Speaker 3: as they can.

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Speaker 1: Yes, all right, Chelsea. Well, the responders also spoke about

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Speaker 1: some kind of wound on Pip poking Horn's head. Is

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Speaker 1: that right?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So this was something that was alluded to yesterday

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Speaker 2: in the Crown's hours long opening. It seems like paramedics

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Speaker 2: and police officers at the scene all agree they saw

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Speaker 2: kind of that cut, a graze or something in the

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Speaker 2: middle of his forehead. Here's Constable Andrew Robbins, like.

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Speaker 4: Pretty much right in the center of his forehead. How

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Speaker 4: would you describe it? Ah, It's probably about maybe no

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Speaker 4: bigger than the size of a golf ball in terms

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Speaker 4: of the diameter, and it was more like a graze.

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Speaker 4: It didn't like as if you know, you'd bang your

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Speaker 4: head on concrete or something, didn't look like a deep

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Speaker 4: cut or anything.

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Speaker 1: Chelsea did because we will say anything else, because he

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Speaker 1: was the one who got poking Horn's first state.

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Speaker 2: Yes, so he was in that statement, which took about

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Speaker 2: forty odd minutes to take. He explained the events of

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Speaker 2: the night before and that morning he had mentioned that

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Speaker 2: Hannah had his history of depression. She was taking antidepression.

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Speaker 4: Pauline has been on and off depressed for several years.

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Speaker 4: She takes some antidepressant medication. I'm not sure what it's called.

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Speaker 4: She has been taking it for several years. I'm not

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Speaker 4: sure she still has been taking it recently. She has

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Speaker 4: also suffered from bolimia about five years ago. She has

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Speaker 4: been taking weight reduction medication. Also. Pauline has been exhausted

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Speaker 4: in recent times. This has been mainly from working such

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Speaker 2: After tulking Horn finished giving his statement, he read each

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Speaker 2: page and he signed them a comfortable Roland then handed

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Speaker 2: the signs document over to his sergeant, Chris.

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Speaker 4: Duillian gave him all the papers, and at that point

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Speaker 4: Sergeant Chris had written on his hand the number one

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Speaker 4: in the letter C and he showed it to me,

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Speaker 4: which is basically police code for suspicious circumstances.

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Speaker 2: So by late morning, before Polkinghorn's statement was finished, officers

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Speaker 2: were treating this scene as suspicious. We'll be hearing more

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Speaker 2: from the crown witnesses tomorrow as well.

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Speaker 1: And indeed, just a little while ago in the court

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Speaker 1: we heard a bit more detail about Pauline Hannah's body

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Speaker 1: and the injuries she had.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so the detective Comfortable Book Everson, gave evidence this afternoon.

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Speaker 2: She was in charge of Hannah's body. She was found

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Speaker 2: on the ground covered with a dou vet with a

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Speaker 2: pillow under her hand, lying on her back. She was

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Speaker 2: wearing a white dressing down tied with a knot at

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Speaker 2: the waist. It's kind of like a rogue waistband. Her

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Speaker 2: head was tilted to the left, and there was obvious

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Speaker 2: markings on her neck about three centimeters and whip in

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Speaker 2: a cliff cross kind of pattern on the right side

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Speaker 2: of the front of her neck. There was a cut

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Speaker 2: on the left side of the bridge of her nose.

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Speaker 2: It was fresh, not scabbed over, she said, and there

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Speaker 2: was blood coming from her left to ear. There was

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Speaker 2: some bruising on her inner right side and on her

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Speaker 2: left hand. There was blood between her four and middle fingers,

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Speaker 2: but that didn't appear to be a cat. It was

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Speaker 2: just blood, so we'll hear more about that tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Chelsea Daniels, thank you so much. Chelsea is in courtant

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