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Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about David Cymore in just a minute.

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Speaker 1: Right now, it's seventeen past five. Now we are on

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Speaker 1: the very last bit of the trial against Philip Polkinghorn.

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Speaker 1: Today Crown prosecuted. The Crown prosecutor summed up her case

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Speaker 1: against Polkinghorn.

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Speaker 2: There is an arrogance and doctor Polkinghorn, I suggest that

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Speaker 2: you should not underestimate. The crown case is that he

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Speaker 2: has taken his wife's life and he has blamed her

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Speaker 2: for it. As he blamed her in life, he blames

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Speaker 2: her in death.

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Speaker 1: Now Polkinghorn's case is actually that Pauline Hannah committed suicide.

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Speaker 1: She wasn't murdered. The Crown told the jury they have

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Speaker 1: to decide what's true.

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Speaker 2: This case is binary. If it's not suicide, it's murder.

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Speaker 1: The Herald's court reporter George Block has been sitting through

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Speaker 1: the trials with us.

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Speaker 3: Now, how George evening here? How are you?

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Speaker 1: I'm very well, thank you. What were the main points

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Speaker 1: of the prosecution impressed on the jury today?

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Speaker 3: Essentially an Alisia mclintock's closing address today, which is almost finished,

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Speaker 3: she said that Polkinghorn in Hannah's lives were sort of

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Speaker 3: on a collision course before her death. She said Hannah

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Speaker 3: was doing quite well or really well at work. She

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Speaker 3: was by all accounts holding it together despite some in

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Speaker 3: the minute struggles. But on the other hand, polking Horn

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Speaker 3: was using an increasing amount of myth, the prosecution said,

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Speaker 3: and in her words, being an older white man didn't

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Speaker 3: make him immune from the effects of methamphetamine. There was

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Speaker 3: a thirty seven point seven grams found in his house

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Speaker 3: indicating what the Crown said was regular use. And we've

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Speaker 3: heard from Crown experts, cited by the prosecutor and closing

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Speaker 3: address saying that that increases your aggression. And in the

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Speaker 3: midst of all this, he was setting up a life,

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Speaker 3: the prosecution said, with or planning set up a life

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Speaker 3: worth medicination. This Ozzie Escort he was seeing. So the

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Speaker 3: prosecution would say, all those factors sort of to come

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Speaker 3: to a sort of crescendo on April five, twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 3: leading to what they said was the was the strangulation

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Speaker 3: of pauling Hannah George.

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Speaker 1: Throughout the trial they talked about the fact that Paul

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Speaker 1: and Hannah died by strangulation, but there was nothing more

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Speaker 1: than that, right, nothing exact about it. What did the

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Speaker 1: crowns say about that today?

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Speaker 3: That's right. They said that if you had to solely

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Speaker 3: rely on pathologists, then every case would be tried only

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Speaker 3: by a pathologists. Right. What Elisia McClintock's point was that

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Speaker 3: the pathology is open. It leaves it says that she

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Speaker 3: died via net compression. But all four pathologists said that

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Speaker 3: you couldn't really determine if it was definitively strangulation or

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Speaker 3: suicide by hanging. Now, the defense pathologist said that he

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Speaker 3: would have concluded suicide by hanging because the lack of

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Speaker 3: defensive wounds, but the prosecutor said, no, that that just

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Speaker 3: leaves the door open to any cause of net compression.

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Speaker 3: And you had to look at the circumstantial evidence like

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Speaker 3: Polkinhorn's Google searches right after his wife's death, for example.

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Speaker 1: And according to the crown, the most important piece of

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Speaker 1: evidence they have is the fact that she had, thirteen

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Speaker 1: months earlier said that he tried to strangle her before.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right. Yeah, they seized on that as a

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Speaker 3: real sign of likelihood of future domestic violence. We know

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Speaker 3: they brought him that law right for strangulation attacks because

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Speaker 3: someone strangling the intimate partner is such a predictor of

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Speaker 3: future violence. And Alisha McLintock said that that was the

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Speaker 3: most important piece of single piece of evidence, that he

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Speaker 3: had put his hands on her neck previously and said

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Speaker 3: I could do this anytime, and that, she said, was

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Speaker 3: a predictor of future violence. And that's what it came

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Speaker 3: to fruition on that night.

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Speaker 1: She said, George, thank you very much for running us

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Speaker 1: through and I appreciate your time very much. That's George Block.

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