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Speaker 1: So after eight weeks in court and more than three

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Speaker 1: years of living under suspicion, Philip Pulkinghorn is not guilty today. Now,

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Speaker 1: the verdict today will come as absolutely no surprise to

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Speaker 1: anyone who's been following this trial closely. The Crown just

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Speaker 1: actually did not have a good case. At no point

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Speaker 1: in time over the last eight weeks was that case

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Speaker 1: actually convincing. But when it came to the closing arguments

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Speaker 1: last week became really obvious just how weak the case

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Speaker 1: against him was. I mean, the best piece of evidence

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Speaker 1: that they had, and this is according to them in

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Speaker 1: the Crown, was that Pauline Hannah had told someone one

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Speaker 1: time that he tried to strangle her about a year

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Speaker 1: before she died. That was the best that they had.

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Speaker 1: That's not much as it, so it's really no surprise.

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Speaker 1: It took the jury only ten hours, which is a

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Speaker 1: very short amount of time, only ten hours to decide

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Speaker 1: that he was not guilty. I don't know where this

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Speaker 1: leaves Philip Polkinghorn though, because the jury made it clear

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Speaker 1: today with that question to the judge that most of

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Speaker 1: them do not think that Pauline Hannah killed herself. Some

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Speaker 1: didn't think that there was enough evidence against him, Philip

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Speaker 1: Pulkinghorn and frankly, after eight weeks of his intimate details

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Speaker 1: being aired to the country, he must be completely humiliated.

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Speaker 1: We know about his extensive drug use, that he was

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Speaker 1: seeing hookers regularly, and how much he was spending on

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Speaker 1: those hookers and drugs intimate messages to women, you know.

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Speaker 1: I often wonder how other people who've been accused of

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Speaker 1: very high profile murders managed to keep living here in

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Speaker 1: such a small country afterwards. I feel like with him,

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Speaker 1: it's even more pronounced because not only was this case

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Speaker 1: extremely high profile, it was often the most read story

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Speaker 1: on news websites every day, but then there was everything

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