Surprise Crown witness casts doubt on claim Hanna's phone used to draft 4am messages
The surgeon is accused of having strangled wife Pauline Hanna and staging a suicide.
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The surgeon is accused of having murdered his wife and staged a suicide.
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Jurors peek into Polkinghorne's laptop: Spousal letters and extra-marital sex videos
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The Auckland eye surgeon is accused of having murdered his wife Pauline Hanna.
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The Auckland eye surgeon is accused of having fatally strangled wife Pauline Hanna.
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The eye surgeon is accused of murdering his wife Pauline Hanna in their Remuera home.
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The Auckland eye surgeon is accused of murdering his wife Pauline Hanna.
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The Auckland eye surgeon is accused of having murdered wife Pauline Hanna.
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