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Speaker 1: Kiota. I'm Chelsea Daniels and from the team behind the

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Speaker 1: front page. The New Zealand Herald's daily news podcast, This

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Speaker 1: is Accused the Polkinghorn Trial. Over a series of weeks,

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Speaker 1: in conjunction with our usual daily episodes, will be bringing

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Speaker 1: you regular coverage as one of the most high profile

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Speaker 1: trials of the year makes its way through the High

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Speaker 1: Court at auckland A warning, this podcast contains disturbing content.

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Speaker 1: After nearly five weeks of witnesses, the Crown has closed

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Speaker 1: its case in the trial of Philip Polkinghorn. The former

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Speaker 1: auckland Ie surgeon, is accused of murdering his wife, Pauline Hannah,

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Speaker 1: who was found dead on April fifth, twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 1: He maintains she took her own life. The Crown closed

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Speaker 1: its case with more on Polkinghorn's arrest, police searches, and

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Speaker 1: a last minute witness on cell phones. The rest of

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Speaker 1: the trial is now in the hands of the defense,

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Speaker 1: and for their first witness, they called up Pauline Hannah's

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Speaker 1: own sister. Day twenty two started with former detective John

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Speaker 1: Cleveland Kennedy. He was with police in August twenty twenty two,

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Speaker 1: but since retired. Philip Polkinghorn's arrest happened at seven point

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Speaker 1: fifty five am on August sixteenth, twenty twenty two. It

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Speaker 1: was by appointment at the police station in the presence

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Speaker 1: of his lawyer. Detective John Cleveland Kennedy arrested Polkinghorn and

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Speaker 1: charged him with the murder of his wife and possession

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Speaker 1: of meth and a meth pipe. He cautioned Polkinghorn and

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Speaker 1: read his riots. Polkinghorn made no comment, Kennedy says. The

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Speaker 1: Crown then called detectives. Being your Sergeant Chris Allen, he's

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Speaker 1: one of the officers in charge of the investigation. He

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Speaker 1: entered the court carrying a box. After clarifying the investigation

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Speaker 1: name Operation Cayenne was generated by a computer, Crown Solicitor

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Speaker 1: Alsia McClintock asked Sergeant Allen to go through a series

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Speaker 1: of photographs from evidence. Copies of the photos were handed

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Speaker 1: to the jury. McClintock asks Allan if he's seen the

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Speaker 1: CCTV footage from Auckland I already discussed as evidence during

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Speaker 1: the trial. He confirmed he had seen the videos. The

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Speaker 1: footage was filmed in October twenty twenty, the weekend before

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Speaker 1: a meth pipe was found in the medical practice. The

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Speaker 1: selection of clips played to the court shows Polkinghorn walking

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Speaker 1: down a corridor to the laser room where the meth

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Speaker 1: pipe was found. So to take a senior sergeant, whereabouts

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Speaker 1: do you take the figure? As it's a very long

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Speaker 1: way away?

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Speaker 2: Let me seek for the jury hard to see and

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Speaker 2: where do you see the figure? In this excerpt stwet Sorry,

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Speaker 2: where does he move?

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Speaker 1: Yes?

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Speaker 2: Whereabouts? The movement is as you see a light wash

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Speaker 2: at the top of the sphere at the corridor, and

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Speaker 1: McClintock moves her. Questioning to the price of math.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's arrange nationally between. It can range from a

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Speaker 2: program depending on a number of factors Auckland, because there

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Speaker 2: is a lot more probably supply basic economics. It's a

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Speaker 2: little bit cheaper. At that point in time, the intelligence

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Speaker 2: a gram. If you buy a number of grams, is

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Speaker 1: Allan has then questioned about travel documents police sourced from

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Speaker 1: Customs regarding Polkinghorn. Customs records show he departed from Auckland

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Speaker 1: on December twenty third, twenty nineteen, at eight am, traveling

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Speaker 1: to a family Christmas at their Rings Beach batch in

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Speaker 1: from Sydney on December twenty seventh, twenty nineteen. Earlier in

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Speaker 1: the trial, evidence from a letter from Polkinghorn to Hannah

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Speaker 1: in a retreat in Auckland called Moving On and Up.

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Speaker 1: Defense lawyer Ron Mansfield started his cross examination of Allen

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Speaker 1: by showing a series of videos from CCTV footage. Rather

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Speaker 2: I do you see that?

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Speaker 3: Now on the end there appears to be one off

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Speaker 2: Did you see that they emerge from that lightwashed sort

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Speaker 2: But I'm not sure if I.

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Speaker 1: Could tell that. Mansfield is challenging the Crown's argument that

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Speaker 1: discovery of panic buttons in the polking Horn's Remuera home.

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Speaker 1: They were found by Sharon Jenkins, a staff member from Auckland.

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Speaker 1: I Allan says his memory was hazy whether he interviewed her.

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Speaker 3: Can you remember her evidence about that or not her evidence,

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Speaker 3: but his statement to the police about that, if I

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Speaker 3: refresh your memory. She confirmed that she had been and

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Speaker 2: And by themous?

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Speaker 1: In a statement, Sharon Jenkins said she stayed at the

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Speaker 3: There we see a photograph of the upstairs spare bedroom

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Speaker 3: or the bedroom where it was believed that missus Polkinghorn

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Speaker 3: Yes, see the giraffe on the little side table soft toys.

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Speaker 3: See underneath that we see another white panel with a

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Speaker 3: red circle or buzzon. Yes. Are you having to help

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Speaker 3: me as to whether, in fact they are the two

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Speaker 2: I would have thought there'd be a Christian bes directed

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Speaker 3: He made no note of that, so we'll come back

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Speaker 1: Mansfield questioned the taking of a hair sample from Hannah

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Speaker 1: testing of that sample in Australia. Mansfield asked Alan questions

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Speaker 3: It was it identify that it could be problematic that

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Speaker 3: the instruction to ESR was the only test for male

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Speaker 2: Sorry, I'm not sure there was a specific construction to

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Speaker 1: Mansfield refers to ESR scientist Fiona Matheson, who worked on

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Speaker 1: the examination of the Polkinghorn home. Matheson was called to

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Speaker 1: Alan rejected the defense's theory that homicide was predetermined, stating

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Speaker 1: The Crown called their final witness before the defense started

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Speaker 1: presenting its case. June Lee is a digital forend analyst

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Speaker 1: last minute witness. Dickie asked him overnight to comment on

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Speaker 1: certain logs presented at court the previous day. You'll remember

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Speaker 1: Andrew Reeves, who was responsible for examining mobile phones, Mansfield

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Speaker 1: Mansfield further probed if the log would create an entry

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Speaker 1: Lee confirmed this was the case. Lee was the final

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Speaker 1: their argument about what happened on April fifth, twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 1: The defense will now be able to argue its version

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Speaker 1: of events, specifically why why Pauline Hannah may have took

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Speaker 1: her own life while the crown case is over. Notably,

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Speaker 1: there is one major absence from the roster of sixty

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Speaker 1: two potential Crown witnesses read aloud at the start of

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Speaker 1: the trial. Sydney based escort Madison Ashton, the seventy one

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Speaker 1: year old surgeon, is accused of having formed a double

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Speaker 1: life prior to wife Pauline Hannah's death. The wider jury

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Speaker 1: news podcast wherever you get your podcasts. After the court

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Speaker 1: by three of his sons, the first appearance from two

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Speaker 1: gallery largely full, defense lawyer Ron Mansfield began his opening address.

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Speaker 3: You don't need a motif if a crime hasn't been committed,

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Speaker 3: no murder. This trial is really as focused as that.

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Speaker 1: During the course of the trial, Mansfield says, we've spent

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Speaker 3: He said, And you might have thought that when the

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Speaker 3: sexual relationships outside of the marriage of mister and Missus Pulkinghorn,

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Speaker 3: that they became intoxicated by the thought of establishing a

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Speaker 3: culpable homicide. And the more and more time they invested

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Speaker 3: the more and more money they spent over that sixteen

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Speaker 3: months we're told of investigation, the focus became not of

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Speaker 3: learning of what actually happened, but instead seeking to prove

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Speaker 3: a crime that hadn't happened.

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Speaker 1: Mansfield urges the jury to give some thought to what

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Speaker 1: they know of Polkinghorn when they hear he is accused

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Speaker 1: of killing his wife, rather than be intoxicated as the

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Speaker 1: Mansfield said that police jumped to a conclusion that Hannah's

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Speaker 1: death was suspicious because of the rope check at the scene.

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Speaker 3: Now the police are believing they are investigating a homicide,

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Speaker 1: Field confirmed that Polkinghorn will not be taking the stand

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