Oh fuck right off!
Look, Paula Penfold is one of our best investigative journalists (except of course that awful middle class docudrama – Fire and Fury) and everyone has to pay the bills, but why is she allowing herself to be played by attention grifter Madison Ashton?
Can’t we get Paula a new NZ on Air gig so she doesn’t have to waste the remaining journalistic credibility she had before she sacrificed it for the awful Fire and Fury?
Let me see if I can get this completely straight.
Madison Ashton was praying for a guilty verdict, but refused to appear in Court because the Police weren’t nice to her?
WTF?
If you think someone is guilty of murder and your testimony in Court could ensure that, you have a moral and ethical obligation as a human being to appear! Shrugging it off because the police weren’t ‘nice’ to you and only fronting via the media after the verdict is ugly.
For her to character assassinate Polky after all he has gone through is one thing but the way Paula so grubbily wallowed in Madison’s cruelty is just as crass.
It feels like Madison’s using it like a publicity branding exercise for herself.
After a gruelling murder trial that ends in a not guilty verdict, Stuff think publishing poison from Polky’s ex sex worker/girlfriend (who wouldn’t even bother fronting for the trial) is ‘journalism’, when it’s really just toxic garbage gossip isn’t it?
Paula should be embarrassed, Stuff should be embarrassed and it looks like Polky’s greatest crime was his taste in prostitutes.
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Martyn – Sex sells…shame about the “journalism” from NZ Herald…
Rich White man walks away free from White court.
Key White witness does not appear hides away over seas.
White murderer of five family members gets apology and paid compensation and starts new life in Australia.
Key White witness does not appear and is hiding in Australia.
White Governor orders invasion of the Waikato and gets Knighthood.
Rich White German cyberspace criminal protected by White govrnments.
White Australian supremist kills 51 Muslims. Gets free hotel room for life.
Mean while White Government 2023 elected on one policy.
Hate all Maori.
New Government orders crackdown on everything Maori.
White Government deny White invasion after 1840.
White Government builds new prisons for Maori who steal cars.
Peters to build Auswich-Birkenau death camps for Maori who speak the first language of these islands.
White power justifies injustice.
Great Like 100%
Add to that, white South African woman kills her kids, and get only 18 years, in a hospital, she will be out in 6 and gets to fly back to the Republic to resume her privileged life
Why is she even still in this country? Our immigration settings are fucked up!
You have a privileged life millsy – you get to throw your verdicts around as if you were some sort of judge. But what sort? Peter Cook had a skit about whether he woild prefer to be a miner or a judge. He said the judges test was too hard so he went for the miner’s, they asked your name and he got 75%.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grg5tULy0tY
You would do far better; expected. That SA doctor/mother/wife/new arrival came from SA, a country which has more issues than we’ve had hot dinners.
Still no excuse to kill her kids.
Correct koina.
Translation: Just blame Whitey (for everything) . . easier that way – no need for any personal responsibility.
Seems reasonable JB. You have a problem when that?
Who is the murderer of 5 family members? If you are thinking David Bain (his original name) then you are wrong as I can guarantee that he is innocent. Scott Watson is likely to be innocent as well so while I agree that Maori people are unfairly treated by the justice system and the rest of your comment needs to be shared being White is not always easy.
David Bain was supported by Joe Karam and his deep pockets, they managed to employ a defence lawyer who was able to bamboozle the jury. There was no forensic evidence that suggested Robin killed his family. Besides, his bladder was full according to the autopsy. As every (biological) male over 35 can attest, the first thing a man would want to do when he gets up is go to the loo.
The debauched Polky is off the murder charge by Jury decision, with no chance for the Crown to appeal apparently, though the cops will likely go in hard on his remaining meth possession counts.
The journalism is just Tabloid style sensationalism really, if it was about a Lion Red drinking working class couple it would barely have been covered. It has emerged from Pauline Hanna’s social media that she was a tory with no time for Jacinda–they were upper middle class Remuera tossers. Party animals that lost their way and paid a very high price.
If I was t be nasty I’d say she looks like an over inflated paddling pool with hair. She sort of is I suppose if one dares to think about it. Poor kid really. There’s no such thing as a sex worker without a history of abuse. polkinghorne is just another sociopathic abuser to take advantage of societies victims and after 40 years of psychopathic greed politically encouraged by a stunted pig torturer and his fawning minions we’ll all suffer his dysfunctional psychopathic legacy for generations to come one way or another. I’m writing about roger douglas. His encouragement for us to abandon our humanness for money, which is evil really, is surely the bottom of the tar pit of humanity.
‘Polkinghorne’. I mean, really? Yuk! Just look at him! He’d have all the cavity exploring enthusiasm of a Mongolian gerbil on meth as he’d have smiled that psychopathic splay-toothed smile.
What a macabre fellow.
Next! Because there’ll be plenty more where [it] came from to feed the freakish nuances of rogers drooling masses.
Polky might have had sex abuse too. I have mentioned tthe book Posh Boys about Brit poncy schools and some boys go there at an early age and probably know little about being human or indeed what women are like in general. Looking at NZ right now I think that the major part of society is edging away from being truly human. And boys who are brought up with no hugs from Mum or Dad, no time to just chat with Mum or Dad – they may never learn to understand their feelings. I’m not excusing just explaining things from a social policy POV. We are dried up inside, many of us.
My Turkish ishkender guy had a visit back to the old country after many years and noticed how much more friendly and open they seemed than here. So it’s all pervasive in NZ – either soppy sentimentalising with hugs for everybody or hardly a kind friendly word or action.
That sounds perceptive, GW
Polky was definitely different, he lead a very interesting life. How many Meth fuelled Sex Maniac Specialists live in Remuera or the Eastern Suburbs just asking for a friend ???
Heh, possibly more than many might imagine, someone has to be using all that Meth that the water tests say is in the community…when I was living in Auckland 70s/80s the coke heads were sometimes Parnell lawyers and car dealers.
Also concequences for wealthy meth users are skant. If Polky has been a young Maori road worker, he would have been bounced out straight away.
Hundreds
And they all have Weber Baby Q’s
Whahinie, in Labours ranks are plenty
Paula Penfold’s a bit busy right now,
She’s in the middle of getting sued for Fire and Fury. After the complainant already forced one out of court settlement from the unhinged Kate Hannah.
“overinflated paddling pool with hair”
Nah, more like a bouncy castle.