Steve Braunias
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 14 Jun
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Her husband was accused of murdering her and the defence was that she'd taken her own life.
And the family are lovely, you know.
I've sort of stayed in touch with them a little bit.
I'll probably be seeing them quite soon because there's going to be a coronial inquest soon.
into that death.
You note I'm refraining from calling it a killing.
Yeah, well, the jury decided that it wasn't, I guess.
You knew instantly and immediately that it was a form of New Zealand history about to unfold every day.
It was a history about Auckland itself.
this garish, extravagant, much despised city of rich wankers, as it's perceived.
And as it was perceived, Polkinghorne, Philip Polkinghorne, Phil, was being perceived and presented as the ultimate rich wanker who had behaved apparently appallingly
and then was accused of killing his wife.
And what was worse, well, it's not worse, but what made it unusual, there's this sensitive term called after-death conduct.
It's what happens to the body afterwards.
And, of course, that was a huge feature of the Grace Mullane case.
Obviously, people were devastated that she'd been killed.
But with what Jesse Kempson did with the body afterwards, with the suitcase and burying it in Waitakere's was venal.
It was a new kind of evil.
And what they accused Phil of doing, killing her and then staging it as a suicide, carrying her down the stairs, fiddling around, getting ropes, performing all these little errands, much the same as Jesse Kempson had and did not deny in his case.
You know, he bought a shovel, a Mitre 10 or something.
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