What happens once the jury goes out after hearing eight weeks of evidence?

Justice Lang provides instruction to the jury as they head into deliberations on Thursday morning.

Justice Graham Lang told the jury to focus on the facts.

The eye surgeon is accused of strangling wife Pauline Hanna then staging a suicide.

Accusations the eye surgeon staged a suicide are 'murder mystery' fantasy: defence.

The jury charged with deciding whether Auckland eye surgeon Philip Polkinghorne murdered his wife is expected to begin deliberating soon.

Wan Yee Chow gunned down a gang enforcer outside an Auckland karaoke bar in 2005.

The eye surgeon is accused of murdering wife Pauline Hanna, staging a suicide.

The surgeon is accused of having strangled wife Pauline Hanna before staging a suicide.

'I really don't believe that they give a hoot about Te Tiriti o Waitangi,' critic says.

Police and Customs earlier seized 408kg of tobacco and 11,000 cigarettes.

The mobsters were heard, and seen, barking and shouting as they walked up the driveway.

The eye surgeon is accused of having strangled wife Pauline Hanna at their Remuera home.

Peter Holmes murdered Jamie Ellis after hearing he had allegedly abused a woman.

Kevin Moore has been illegally occupying Māori land for more than a decade.

The jury was reduced to 11 as today's hearing ended.

The Remuera eye surgeon is accused of strangling his wife, Pauline Hanna.

Emma Field was alive but likely unconscious when a fire took hold of her bedroom.

His first court appearance comes more than a year after that of his four co-defendants.

Philip Polkinghorne’s lawyer called two pathologists who believe the circumstances of Pauline Hanna’s death suggest she committed suicide. Video / Corey Fleming

The Auckland eye surgeon is accused of having strangled wife Pauline Hanna.

The activist assaulted a security officer by deliberately touching her without consent.

He was suffering from 'active psychotic symptoms' at the time of the attack.