
Steve Braunias: When Polkinghorne told me the tide had turned in his favour
OPINION: Epic trial. Epic fail for the police. Epic vindication for Polkinghorne.
OPINION: Epic trial. Epic fail for the police. Epic vindication for Polkinghorne.
Polkinghorne is understood to have been living at his sister’s Mission Bay home.
The Auckland eye surgeon was accused of killing wife Pauline Hanna in their Remuera home.
Philip Polkinghorne has spoken for the first time after receiving a not-guilty verdict.
The Crown said the Remuera surgeon strangled his wife. The defence said it was suicide.
'Pauline died never knowing the truth, I wish she had just called me.'
OPINION: I didn’t know Pauline. I think I would have liked her.
The eye surgeon's eight-week murder trial was based on circumstantial evidence.
The jury will return to court at 11am.
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.
The eye surgeon is accused of having strangled wife Pauline Hanna at their Remuera home.
OPINION: Steve Braunias continues his diary of the Polkinghorne murder trial.
Accusations the eye surgeon staged a suicide are 'murder mystery' fantasy: defence.
The eye surgeon is accused of having strangled wife Pauline Hanna at their Remuera home.
The eye surgeon is accused of having strangled wife Pauline Hanna at their Remuera home.
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.
Philip Polkinghorne is accused of strangling his wife, Pauline Hanna.
The eye surgeon is accused of having strangled wife Pauline Hanna in their Remuera home.
The eye surgeon is accused of having strangled wife Pauline Hanna in their Remuera home.
Questions continue over whether two messages were drafted in the hours before her death.
The jury was reduced to 11 as today's hearing ended.
The Remuera eye surgeon is accused of strangling his wife, Pauline Hanna.
The Auckland eye surgeon is accused of having strangled wife Pauline Hanna.
The Auckland surgeon is accused of strangling wife Pauline Hanna in their Remuera home.
He was suffering from 'active psychotic symptoms' at the time of the attack.
The Remuera eye surgeon is accused of strangling his wife, Pauline Hanna.
The Remuera eye surgeon is accused of strangling his wife, Pauline Hanna.
OPINION: Steve Braunias on the trial of the centuries.