It’s SweetPuff Polky time – did he murder his wife or just drive her to Suicide?
And the painful open pus filled wound of the Polkinghorne trial has finally reached that point where the Jury make their deliberation.
The parasitically ghoulish coverage gawking into the minutia of a damaged relationship swamped in lust, money and meth.
So. Much. Meth.
Sweet Puff.
The trial has been a loquacious gaucheness that stumbles and gapes at a murder case that manages to boil down the facade of the Professional Middle Class Boomers into a puddle of drug fuelled orgies on a burning planet at the end of Late Stage Capitalism.
Murder or suicide.
What a bleak Claytons choice.
Now.
I have not hung on to every word, I’m no childless cat lady True Crime devotee, I’m not on the jury.
But I’ve seen the news stories and read the trial through the eyes of Braunias, and I am astounded that this case made it to Court because the Prosecution has not in my mind managed to even get close to proving their case.
I have been genuinely surprised by the lack of solid scientific evidence that connects him to strangling her in a meth rage, moving her body, staging the suicide and then calling the Police.
Most killers in a meth rage go troppo with violence to the body, none of that remotely happened here.
It is far more likely that this caring 60 year old woman, who had done all she could for this lewd leprechaun privileged Boomer, simply took her own life out of the empty hollow sadness her existence had become because of his addictions.
I don’t think he murdered her, but I certainly think he killed her.
I think the police were so taken aback by his double life they immediately assumed he could have murdered his wife.
The Officer who finally made the decision to arrest and charge Polkinghorne was either:
a) An easily shocked pearl clutching Christian.
b) Angry by how much it had cost to date and demanded a prosecution to justify that cost.
c) Bored True Crime Podcast enthusiast.
d) Childless cat lady True Crime Podcast enthusiast
I think Polkinghorne is the voyeuristic trial we need as the planet fries during Late Stage Capitalism.
Bloated with privilege Boomers, pumped full of money and power, denigrating the personal lives of their loved ones for vice and orgiastic greed ending in a murder or suicide.
Is there a more fitting tawdry crassness for a country with all the active culture of yoghurt?
This is a sad grim story of addiction, privilege and terminal sadness that I don’t believe we ever needed to know or hear about because the idea that he murdered her and dragged her into a faked suicide scene simply hasn’t been proved anywhere near beyond reasonable doubt.
I think there are going to be some real question marks over why this case needlessly exposed Pauline Hanna’s lonely grief and intimate pain.
I want one of the muffins Steve Braunias baked.
Does it taste like justice?
Good luck to the Jury trying to pass judgement on such sad pitiful lives.
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Great analogy… the privileged property hoarding Boomers are voting our civilization off a cliff in order to prolong their orgy of consumption and greed, and to hell with the future
Well, some were certainly wallowing in this one thanks to blanket daily media channel coverage including multiple podcasts, oh that they spent so much time covering what the CoC is doing to working class people with their cuts and war on the poor. Because…a whole lot worse than self destructive middle class people having a relationship meltdown is happening out here in mental health, education, homelessness, and WINZ/MSD.
Unless you grew up in Sunday School, many NZers would know a Polky or two or even more…get over it…the human condition spares no one.
“oh that they spent so much time covering what the CoC is doing ”
Well TM, you know just as well as I do that the vile Polky soap opera features so prominently precisely so that media outlets sympathetic to the Right don’t have to do as you suggest.
I agree, I don’t think he will be found guilty, evidence is not there.
I make no comment on his behavior.
(1) It didn’t have to be “ either/or.”
(2) This sort of tawdry speculation is disgusting.
Probably end up being a hung jury, and we have to go over the whole thing again in another two years.
Would love to know why he is out on bail though, seems that if you are middle/upper class and are on trial for murder, being remanded in custody isnt a thing,
“I have been genuinely surprised by the lack of solid scientific evidence that connects him to strangling her in a meth rage, moving her body, staging the suicide and then calling the Police.”
There was no solid scientific evidence that Robin Bain killed his family, and spared David, but the (second) jury still acquitted him.
Not a particularly nice chap by the sounds of it.
I got reminded in my comment on the previous article about this case that not all wives are saints and it is probably fair to say that perfect wives are about as rare as perfect husbands but either situation is a tragic way for a life to end. If people could only communicate and live up to a set of agreed expectations there would be a lot less issues within relationships.
The irony is that he was allowed to get away with being fried out on meth by his employer, while young Maori road workers are bounced out for testing positive to a bit of pot in their system.
You have perfectly expressed the vacuous nature of this pathetic case. Last stage capitalism as the planet burns. Brilliant writing as usual
Either way the woman is dead and he was involved one way or another.
Yep, the guy thought he was going to spend his retirement in some Sydney love nest with a hooker half his age.
It can be hard to understand how the authorities decide when to investigate possible homicides like Pauline Hanna. You’d think they’d look into any suspicious situation, until enough is known, to decide that it’s not suspicious, or keep inquiring until more is known. But this doesn’t always happen.
A woman died recently in Waikato hospital, which is not unusual. But the alarm on her cardiac monitor had been turned down to be inaudible. So when the alarm went off, no one noticed until it was too late. Given the situation, shouldn’t the authorities have inquired. If NZ was the USA, this would likely have been looked at further. If an estranged ex was the last person to visit, when the alarm got reset, would that change anything? What if members of the Comancheros had visited? If the patient had been the PM, then what? (www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/526846/woman-died-in-waikato-hospital-because-cardiac-alarm-volume-was-turned-down)
Yet with no investigation, it will never be known whether there could have been a medic with a grudge, for instance. There is nothing circumstantial about the purposeful action of turning down a vital alarm, and it could be argued they not be adjustable. If it were simply a mistake, it does not absolve responsibility, anymore than making a mistake in a traffic accident.
But like the abuse in care situation or Pike River, the authorities don’t appear to want to look into anything too hard, just in case they find something, which is really covering up by omission, which is itself kind of criminal, aka nothing changes and nothing is going to change and no lessons learnt.
I don’t know why the NZ Press saturate the papers with this Case, absolutely horrible and I would say most New Zealanders would want to know as little as possible about this case.
I don’t know why the NZ Press saturate the papers with this Case, absolutely horrible and I would say most New Zealanders would want to know as little as possible about this case. IMHO ???
What I’ve heard from near the inside is that it’s a botched Crown case and the jury won’t be able to find him guilty as charged. We’ll see. Murder or suicide? Is hanging from the end of a rope the choice of women of this demographic, or women of any demographic for that matter?