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Speaker 1: God hither due to see Ellen.

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Speaker 2: Philip Polkingham's murder trial has entered its third week.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: He's accused of killing his wife, Pauline Hannah. He says

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Speaker 2: she took her own life. Now, this morning the court

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Speaker 2: heard from her niece Rose. You will remember Rose was

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Speaker 2: the one who made a secret recording of a family

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Speaker 2: dinner where Pauline detailed her husband's in fidelity and their

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Speaker 2: relationship problems. Chelsea Daniels has been following the trial. She's

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Speaker 2: with us. Now, Hey, Chelsea, I why did Pauline's niece

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Speaker 2: secretly record that family dinner that we heard about last week?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 3: So, on the day of the recording in November twenty nineteen,

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Speaker 3: Pauline had gone to Hawk's Bay to catalog her mother's

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Speaker 3: items and artworks. Rose was helping her, writing down all

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Speaker 3: of those items on her laptop. Later in the day,

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Speaker 3: she says, the family began talking about the items again,

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Speaker 3: but she didn't have her laptop handy, so she hit

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Speaker 3: record on her phone. The jury didn't hear all of

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Speaker 3: the talk about the items, only that snippet of about

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Speaker 3: twenty minutes, only from when the conversation turned.

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Speaker 2: All right, that explains it. Okay, so what else did

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Speaker 2: Rose say this morning?

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Speaker 3: You'll remember the conversation last week had turned to Christmas plans.

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Speaker 3: Pauline had invited Rose to the Polkinghorn Christmas in Auckland

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Speaker 3: and invited her to stay at their remiware a home.

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Speaker 3: Rose didn't end up going, though, and she explains an

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Speaker 3: email she got from her aunt.

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Speaker 1: It's Pauline basically saying that she doesn't want me to

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Speaker 1: stay in the house and she wants me to instead

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Speaker 1: be in a hotel, and that Philip had become irate

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Speaker 1: that she'd made Christmas dinner into an event by inviting me.

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Speaker 1: So I didn't attend Auckland. I was only coming up

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Speaker 1: for her and I didn't want to make trouble by

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Speaker 1: being here.

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Speaker 3: Rose had dinner with Pauline in August twenty twenty, where

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Speaker 3: the idea of contacting a divorce attorney came up. They

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Speaker 3: also discussed Pauline looking into hiring a private investigator. She

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Speaker 3: said her aunt was terrified and worried she couldn't afford

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Speaker 3: to leave her husband because she suspected she didn't have

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Speaker 3: any money to her name.

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Speaker 1: She said that during the early stages of the pandemic,

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Speaker 1: she was signing documents all day every day, and Philip

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Speaker 1: had passed her things to sign, and she was crying,

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Speaker 1: saying that she had been incredibly naive and trusting and

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Speaker 1: was worried that she had no money in her name anymore.

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Speaker 2: Why was she worried about that, she explained.

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Speaker 1: Because he had explained to her, Philip being he that

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Speaker 1: it was easier to invest the money with a single

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Speaker 1: signature required, so he'd signed it over over the assets

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Speaker 1: into his name so that he could then invest it easier,

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Speaker 1: and she had trusted him.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Chelsea, Who else have we heard from today?

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Speaker 3: So the Crown called Paul Adrianes, a hairdresser who knew

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Speaker 3: Polkinghorn via a mutual friend, a woman named Lee Pedson.

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Speaker 3: He said that they were both clients of Lee, a

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Speaker 3: sex worker, and told the court Polkinghorn would pay her

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Speaker 3: to have sex with him. We also heard from Sarah Prentice,

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Speaker 3: who worked with Pauline on and off for about ten

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Speaker 3: years in the health sector. She's just the latest dinner

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Speaker 3: string of co workers we've heard from. They all say

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Speaker 3: pretty much the same thing. Pauline was hardworking and always

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Speaker 3: immaculately turned out. She worked incredibly long hours and was

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Speaker 3: proud of her work in the COVID vaccination rollout.

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Speaker 2: Chelsea, thank you very much for running us through that.

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Speaker 2: That's Chelsea Daniels, a reporter who's been in court. You

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Speaker 2: can hear more from Chelsea about this on The Herald's

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Speaker 2: podcast Accused the Polkinghorn Trial.

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