"Mercy, Mistress, Mercy!" - Part Three: Hiffed Over The Huka Falls
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What events led to Peter Plumley Walker's death?
This is not just about the trials of two young people wrongly charged with murder, but it's also an essay in human motivation. On Friday, the 27th of January 1989, Peter Plumley Walker entered a Remuera house for the purpose of a bondage session with Renee Chignol, the dominatrix who worked the parlour in partnership with her boyfriend Neville Walker. From this scenario, events flowed that left Plumlee Walker dead and caused both Chignall and Neville Walker to be charged with his murder. Plumlee Walker appeared to his friends as a respectable citizen. If anything, a bit on the stiff and proper side, who specialised in umpiring cricket matches. What would Signum Freud have made of Plumlee Walker, the respectable cricket umpire, who wanted to be spanked because, I've been naughty.
That was, of course, Peter Williams QC from the intro to Defence Lawyer for Neville Walker, Christopher Harder's book, Mercy, Mistress, Mercy, which is a very detailed investigation into the events of the 27th of January. 320 pages worth. Yeah, it goes deep into the trials because, you know, he really leaned into this case, Christopher Harder. He was the defence lawyer for Neville Walker and Stuart Grieve was the defence lawyer for Renee Chignall, but they were charged together, so they sort of had to work together, which is kind of a weird thing in a court case where there's two people. And I think it's quite weird because it could have been that one of them was an accessory and one of them was the murderer.
You know, that seemed possible, but they were both charged with murder together and tried together three times.
Well, we'll come to the trial a little bit later on, probably in part four. This is part three.
How did the relationship dynamics affect the case?
Yeah. And so far in part one, we met the characters involved, Renee Chignall, Peter Plumney-Walker, and Neville Walker. And then in part two, we went through Peter Plumney-Walker's day, which involved all sorts of things, the finality of a divorce, the end of his marriage. Yeah. And then in the end, he went at 4 o'clock, he was half an hour early, to a bondage session, which he'd booked in with Renee Chignol and 28A Rotamahana Terrace in Remuera. He arrived there and then asked for a whole lot of stuff, and then... Well, was found slumped over after Renee Chignol left him for 20 minutes and went and had a cup of tea in a ciggy with her partner, Neville Walker, who was also at the house.
Or was he? Well, was he? Yeah. According to Renee Chignall, he was. Yeah. And so when we left you, mum had been around. Renee Chignall's mum had been around for fish and chips.
What role did Renee Chignall's mother play in the timeline?
She finally arrived very tardy, Renee Chignall's mum. Well, she said she was going to be there at 5.30. Yeah, and she wasn't around there till 9. So what the hell was she doing until then? Anyway, as we said, there was a bit of an argument between Neville and Renee's mum about the fish and chips because he owned fish and chip shops. He was a connoisseur of fish and chips. Was he? Yeah, a connoisseur. Yeah.
Hey, so just to recap, Renee Chignall's mum was there at 9, is that right?
Yes.
Or 9.30, and then she was there till 11.30.
Yeah, so she left at 11.30.
And so while she was there eating the fish and chips and Neville was complaining about the fish and chips, they had a bit of a to-do. Yeah. The body of Peter Plumley Walker was lying on the floor of the room next door, the bondage room, which is just a spare room, basically.
Yeah. And Renee Chignall said that she went back into the room a few times to check. I don't know what she was checking. Was he risen from the dead like Jesus? I don't know. I don't know. But mum left at 11.30. So you've got a body in the other room from 9 to 11.30. Mum's around. That's quite a long time, isn't it? Two and a half hours. Two and a half hours with mum. Like it's a bit of a sitcom situation, isn't it? Bloody got a dead Peter Plummy Walker in the other room and mum's come around for fish and chips and going back and forth with the room, you know.
And he died at 10 to 5.
according to Renee Chignall so that's five that's what six and a half hours he's been that the body of Peter Plumney Walker has been lying in this room dead I mean it'd be cold by the time yeah and that's what we said would be a bad look and you know their hand has sort of been played or been pushed what's the saying that what they're going to do here because ring the police at that point and going to be a lot of questions about why you didn't ring him ring immediately
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What events led to Peter Plumley Walker's death?
0:06–1:55
2
How did the relationship dynamics affect the case?
1:55–2:47
3
What role did Renee Chignall's mother play in the timeline?
2:47–5:26
4
What evidence was found in Peter Plumley Walker's flat?
5:26–7:28
5
How did the police connect Neville Walker and Renee Chignall to the crime?
7:28–10:47
6
What was the significance of the CCTV footage from the service station?
10:47–12:26
7
How did the trial unfold for Neville Walker and Renee Chignall?
12:26–16:11
8
What were the implications of the pathologist's findings in the case?
16:11–37:05