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Speaker 1: Hilda. 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 polking Horn Trial. Over the next six weeks,

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Speaker 1: in conjunction with our usual daily episodes, we'll 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: The trial of Philip Polkinghorn has in theory, hit the

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Speaker 1: halfway mark, with Justice Graham Lang telling the jury it's

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Speaker 1: broadly on schedule. Given we're about halfway, let's run through

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Speaker 1: some of what we've heard over the last few weeks.

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Speaker 1: Philip Polkinghorn is accused of strangling his wife, Pauline Hannah

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Speaker 1: at the couple's Remuere home in April twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 1: before allegedly staging the scene to make it look like

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Speaker 1: sh'd taken her own life. His defense maintains she committed suicide.

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Speaker 1: We've heard from police officers, those who first attended the

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Speaker 1: Upland road scene, and a Canadian rope expert who said

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Speaker 1: the bright orange rope hanging from the upstairs balustrade was

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Speaker 1: too loose. A beltmark on her neck seen on the

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Speaker 1: Easter Monday morning, disappeared by the next day, suggesting it

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Speaker 1: could have been applied after death or taken off up

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Speaker 1: to two hours after the courts heard thirty seven point

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Speaker 1: seven grams of meth was found dotted around the home.

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Speaker 1: A pipe was found at Polkinghorn's workplace. Auckland Eye and

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Speaker 1: a work friend has detailed the day he came forward

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Speaker 1: and disclosed his drug use. Friends and family of Hannah

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Speaker 1: Polkinghorn's infidelity, his alleged anger issues, and an incident where

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Speaker 1: she claimed he wrapped his hands around her neck. Polkinghorn

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Speaker 1: has already pleaded guilty to possession of meth, which was

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Speaker 1: made public on day one of the trial. We've heard

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Speaker 1: from Pauline herself via a recording of a family dinner,

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Speaker 1: where she divulges details of their sex life as sex

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Speaker 1: worker in Sydney, threesomes and emotional abuse. He's out of

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Speaker 1: control because he doesn't understand how to control himself. But

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Speaker 1: he loves me more than anything in the world. I'm

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Speaker 1: his brick, he is mine. She said. The court listened

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Speaker 1: to a rambling epic of a recorded police interview hours long,

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Speaker 1: where Polkinghorn details how he found his wife on the

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Speaker 1: morning of April fifth, twenty twenty one. We've heard of

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Speaker 1: Hannah's medical history, an itemized list of prescriptions spanning decades,

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Speaker 1: loss drugs, reports of suicide ideation in twenty nineteen, and

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Speaker 1: an attempted suicide in the early nineteen nineties. Her record

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Speaker 1: couple of psychiatrist visits. The defense points to a powerful

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Speaker 1: when taken with alcohol, can increase the risk of suicide.

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Speaker 1: Her work on the COVID nineteen response was stressful. She

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Speaker 1: worked all the time, sending emails at all hours, they say,

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Speaker 1: with her details of tea and toast, a scrape or

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Speaker 1: was it a graze on the forehead? How power usage works,

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Speaker 1: an orange nylon rope, a sheet in the dryer, a

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Speaker 1: crisscross patterned belt, plans for Christmas twenty nineteen, weekly visits

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Speaker 1: first three weeks. Week four of the trial began on

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Speaker 1: a Tuesday morning. As Philip Polkinghorn's lawyer, Ron Mansfield had

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Speaker 1: Deborah Boyd. She joined the clinic in twenty sixteen. She

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Speaker 1: Prosecutor Pip McNabb asked about the meth pipe found at

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Speaker 1: and Boyd go through meeting agendas emails about when board

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Speaker 1: It shows the defense went as far as requesting the

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Speaker 1: emails sent to board directors to calculate how far before

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Speaker 1: board meetings they were sent out and thereby challenge Crown

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Speaker 1: surprise someone would fall asleep during a meeting. Two more

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Speaker 1: nineteen years. She's the one that found the meth pipe

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Speaker 1: a lighter, she remembered. She told operations manager Tracy Molloy,

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Speaker 1: testing technician. They do workplace testing for drug analysis, including

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Speaker 1: Crown Prosecutor Pep McNab walked Hill through all of the

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Speaker 1: Of all of the samples, there was one particular area

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Speaker 1: Rod Mansfield questioned readings Hill did after another company cleaned

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Speaker 1: the practice. He came back in September when several swabs

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Speaker 3: Just briefly, mister Hill, you said that in September twenty

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Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts. Margaret Skelton is a forensic

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Speaker 1: accountant for the New Zealand Police. She took to the

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Speaker 1: stand as an expert witness, having been tasked with analyzing

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Speaker 1: Hannah and Polkinghorn's financials. She started her testimony at the

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Speaker 1: end of day sixteen, before returning on day seventeen. Skelton

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Speaker 1: was given an z and ASB bank statements as well

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was a bit of a two way street really.

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Speaker 4: You'd find out, you know, where the investigation was going

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Speaker 4: in a general sense. But when I analyzed bank statements,

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Speaker 4: no matter you know what it's relating to, you tend

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Speaker 4: to look for certain time transactions. So in this case,

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Speaker 4: I identified transactions to accounts of payees that were frequent

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Speaker 1: She would pass on names to police of people who

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Speaker 1: came up regularly in the records, she looked at their

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Speaker 1: individual accounts, joint accounts, credit and debit cards. A joint

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Speaker 1: account was where Hannah's salary was paid.

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Speaker 2: Were you able to distill who appeared to be the

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Speaker 4: That account primarily her? The spending that I saw and

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Speaker 4: it were of the everyday type of expenses parking, coffees, lunch, groceries,

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Speaker 1: Could you tell between users of the account once or not?

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Speaker 1: An ASB account is Brian Dicky's first focus, an account

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Speaker 1: solely operated by Polkinghorn. As well as monthly pension payments

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Speaker 1: and fortnightly payments from National super there was a regular

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Speaker 1: weekly payment of five hundred dollars to an account named

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Speaker 1: a Laria Family Trust starting in February twenty nineteen. Suffice

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Speaker 1: to say, Skelton's testimony was lengthy and involved a lot

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Speaker 1: of numbers different accounts, transfers and cash withdrawals. First off,

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Speaker 1: details of Polkinghorn's bank transfers to a litany of payees

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Speaker 5: All right, and the next person, I think this, did

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Speaker 5: you've got here as medicine Ashton?

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Speaker 4: Correct? So my investigation revealed that there was. There were

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Speaker 4: transfers totaling one hundred and six, one hundred and thirty

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Speaker 1: So he gave one hundred and six thousand, one hundred

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Speaker 1: and thirty dollars to Australian sex worker Madison Ashton, with

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Speaker 1: February twenty nineteen and January twenty twenty one. Here are

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Speaker 1: some other transactions. Nearly thirty six thousand dollars from twenty

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Speaker 1: sixteen to twenty nineteen on a woman named Lee, who

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Speaker 1: was identified by Polkinghorn's barber earlier in the trial as

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Speaker 1: a mutual acquaintance sex worker, just over seventy two thousand

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Speaker 1: dollars between twenty nineteen and twenty twenty one on a

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Speaker 1: woman named Jody sixty one thousand, eight hundred dollars between

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Speaker 1: twenty sixteen and twenty twenty one to a Northcote Point

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Speaker 1: The total amount spent on women alone was two hundred

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Speaker 1: and ninety six thousand, six hundred and forty five dollars.

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Speaker 1: Now we get onto cash with drawers in the year

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Speaker 1: from February twenty eighteen, they're about one hundred and twenty

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Speaker 1: with drawals from Australian ATMs, totally around one hundred and

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Speaker 4: So most as a result of my investigation, appeared to

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Speaker 4: be made when Miss Polkinghorn was not in Australia. I

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Speaker 4: was aware at that point that Possession lived in Australia

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Speaker 4: at the time, and in to eighty twenty nineteen from

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Speaker 4: this anzet account, mister Polkinghorn started making international transfers to

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Speaker 4: medicine Ashtionin and those cashwift drawels ceased and those payments

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Speaker 4: that the payments that were made were referenced in the

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Speaker 1: Skelton explained they can obtain people's travel records from immigration,

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Speaker 1: so she was able to compare the withdrawals to when

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Speaker 5: For twenty sixteen, just run through.

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Speaker 3: Those first plas.

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Speaker 4: Yes twenty and sixteen, cashwift draws from those three accounts

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Speaker 4: totaled thirty thousand, three hundred dollars twenty and seventeen. They

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Speaker 4: totaled twenty two thousand, three hundred and fifty dollars twenty

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Speaker 4: twenty was eighty five thousand, one hundred and In twenty

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Speaker 4: March twenty twenty one, the total was twenty one thousand dollars.

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Speaker 1: I went through what happened to the money from the

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Speaker 1: sale of the Pappatoy toy property that it earlier been

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Speaker 1: a million dollars. Skilton followed that money. First off, two

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Speaker 1: payments of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars went to

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Speaker 1: also seventy two thousand dollars in transfers to his Australian account,

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Speaker 1: transfers to Kelly and Ashton, one hundred and fifty two

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars paid to Ben Polkinghorn, his son, and twenty

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Speaker 1: six thousand dollars spent on a Sanyong yute.

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Speaker 4: It took I think it was almost a year. Certainly,

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Speaker 4: by March twenty twenty one the account balance was back

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Speaker 4: time for the balance of the funds to be dispersed

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Speaker 4: on a variety of different smaller spending items.

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Speaker 2: But as you've said before, Adoptor Polkinhorn's the sole authority

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Speaker 2: on this particular account.

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Speaker 4: Quick, all right.

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Speaker 1: I won't go through every detail of every account because

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Speaker 1: there are a lot you can read full testimony at

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Speaker 1: enzherld dot co dot nz if you're interested, but I

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Speaker 1: will know activity connected to an account called the Hannah

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Speaker 1: Polkinghorn Trust. Funds would be transferred to it, say like

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Speaker 1: two thousand dollars a fortnight from Hannah's salary, and when

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Speaker 1: it'd be transferred to a joint ASB account, then dispersed

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Speaker 1: among accounts controlled by polking Horn, so.

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Speaker 4: That the Internet banking transfer is made from the Hannah

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Speaker 4: Polkinghorn Trust total three hundred and nine thousand, eight hundred.

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Speaker 4: They were authorized or conducted by mister Polkinghorn, and did.

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Speaker 5: All of that go to accounts ultimately over which he

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Speaker 4: Of foreign exactly, So if you lose all the noise

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Speaker 4: in between, it was going from joint accounts into accounts

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Speaker 4: that he controlled by himself.

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Speaker 1: That stopped happening at about twenty twenty, and by March

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, the balance in that account was about

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Speaker 1: forty four thousand dollars. That's something Skelton noted as being interesting.

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Speaker 1: She went on to explain how she knew who made

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Speaker 1: what transfers when we have an account number. We also

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Speaker 1: have a customer number. These customer numbers are unique to people.

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Speaker 1: From twenty nineteen to March twenty twenty one, there was

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Speaker 1: from an an Z account to Polkinghorn's Australian bank account.

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Speaker 1: Skelton also referenced two accounts in Hannah's name. She opened

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Speaker 1: them in December twenty twenty. She said it's possible Hannah

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Speaker 1: opened to this account without Polkinghorn's knowledge, as is not

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Speaker 1: an authority on it. Skelton went on to establish the

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Speaker 1: couple's worth looking at their two properties, the Remuera one

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Speaker 1: and the one at rings Beach, their investment account, personal accounts,

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Speaker 1: and trust accounts. They were worth nearly ten point five

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Speaker 1: million dollars. Defense lawyer Ron Mansfield asked about when a

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Speaker 1: couple chooses to separate assets, No matter whose name they're in,

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Speaker 1: would be divided fifty to fifty, right, So it.

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Speaker 5: Doesn't really matter, does it? What name a particular essay

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Speaker 5: it is held in?

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Speaker 4: From that perspective, no, doesn't.

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Speaker 5: Matter what name a bank account was held in. No,

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Speaker 5: wouldn't matter whether someone was a signatory or wasn't a signatory.

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Speaker 4: When it comes to the attribution of money in the

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Speaker 2: No.

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Speaker 1: He asked Skelton about the couple's wages on polling Hannah's salary.

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Speaker 1: Her net's salary was about one hundred and fifty two

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars after tax deductions and key we Saver contributions.

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Speaker 1: Mansfield said it would equate to a salary of around

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Speaker 1: two hundred and eight two one hundred and twelve thousand

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Speaker 5: She so chose, say, for example, if she wanted to

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Speaker 5: separate or wanted to prepare to separate somebody, then she

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Speaker 5: could redirect that salary into another account, couldn't she Yes,

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Speaker 5: because that would be something that she would be able

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Speaker 5: to control immediately.

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Speaker 4: Yes, Well, you just tell your employer.

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Speaker 1: So even if they separated, Mansfield said, she was on

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Speaker 1: a comfortable salary that's before the division of assets, where

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Speaker 1: they'd both get about five point two five million dollars each.

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Speaker 1: Skilton agreed. Mansfield takes her through various transactions from Hannah's

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Speaker 1: personal account, the one she set up in December twenty twenty.

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Speaker 1: Trillie's cooper Rodney Wayne New World Farow fresh A pharmacy,

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Speaker 5: No payments to private investigators are there. No no payments

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Speaker 4: No.

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