Surgeon's life became 'aggressively shambolic' with sex, spending and violence prior to wife's murder - Crown
The eye surgeon is accused of murdering wife Pauline Hanna, staging a suicide.
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Polkinghorne murder trial not sitting today, defence to open tomorrow
The trial will resume on Friday at 10am.