Ok – let’s talk about the Polky Murder/Suicide case

ByMartyn Bradbury

Hand on heart I was going to cancel my subscription to the NZ Herald because fuck them taking money for that hateful Hobson’s pledge advert!

How the Christ can anyone pretend that some Pom who was in the country for 5 days and warbled ‘we are all one people” at the signing of the Treaty in Māori somehow means Māori ceded sovereignty is one thing but pretending that ‘da Maaaaris is stealing da beaches’ as their advert insinuated is a total fabrication and malicious lie!

So fuck the NZ Herald.

Unfortunately the unbelievable Polkinghorne trial had erupted and bloody Steve Braunias was covering it.

I just can’t cancel until the end! Braunias has a way with language, a way with words where crucial moments in this terrible torrid awful murder trial are painted by him as painfully human and gloriously divine in equal measure.

The tender contempt Braunias has for the oafish Law students, the parasitically ghoulish mainstream journalists, the great unwashed who congregate to gawk.

It’s all so awful in a beautifully awkward kiwi way.

A loquacious gaucheness that stumbles and gapes at a murder trial 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 life 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) Shocked by how much it had cost to date and demanded a prosecution to justify the cost.

c) Bored True Crime Podcast enthusiast.

I think Polkinghorne is the voyeuristic trial we need as the planet burns 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 and intimate pain.

I want one of the muffins Steve Braunias baked.  Does it taste like justice?

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33 Comments

  1. Well all that meth in the country has to go somewhere…a sad tale of humans doing what they seem to do best–inflicting suffering.

    “He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.”–Samuel Johnson.

    Have tried to ignore this tawdry case, which is not easy given saturation daily media channel coverage and two podcasts.

  2. Mr Plod has blown it…when I heard the knot Google bazinga!! I thought…guilty…then they asked Mr plod…oh it was 12 years ago, yes it was fishing knots, yes he was at Coro Bach… that’s the moment it turned.

  3. I am staggered to say it but I agree with Bob the First. I have only been reading the headlines but they make for very uncomfortable reading.

  4. The most amazing thing to me was that thr dead wife’s family had a tape recording of a meal they had discussing her situation. Who the fuckk records their family conversations. Totally unbelievable. The drug use, the domination, falling in love with the whore, all believable plot lines; but the recording come on.

  5. Beyond reasonable doubt has nothing much to do with it.
    The courts know it, prosecution know it, defence know it.
    It’s can be as simple as being about persuasion, appealing to prejudice, emotion and indignation. Even the defendants’ weight and appearance.

    And once a conviction is entered reasonable doubt will have nothing whatsoever to do with the possible overturning of a conviction. The courts will wash their hands of any responsibility toward that standard, claiming that as having been a matter for the jury, they will double and triple down on upholding what can sometimes be obviously and absurdly indefensible positions. Only process will matter to the courts, believing they must maintain the myth of infallibility when in reality they pull the curtain back on their own self interest.

    We’ve already watched the scenario play out over and over again.

    1. But the Tax Cuts were going to help all of us, I think I get an extra $15 per week enough for 2.5 Flat whites or 2 x Big Mac’s.

    2. In the next while Edmonds will be finance minister and like Cullen and Robertson will be called upon to sort out the debt left by National’s tax cutting and their will be nothing Left in the kitty for the people.

      1. Probably end up doing what Starmer and Reeves are doing in the UK. I never thought that I would see a UK Labour PM further to the right of Blair, but here we are.

  7. Just the pics of old guy in Court was enough to put me off. There are so many old men who are totally self-occupied – they vote for Gnats and the right wing. Better to watch sport, plenty of smooth admirable bodies there and a recent woman runner with no side to her running singlet at all right to the hip,. I think there has been a film made of another oldie which may entertain you if you follow this sort of thing. As for encouraging Bob1st, why praise him for coming up with the predictable, conventional line?

    Long before 50 Shades of anything, New Zealander and teenage dominatrix Renee Chignell was at the center of a moral firestorm, charged with the murder of cricket umpire Peter Plumley-Walker.
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    If you want to feel what being shocked is – read Malcolm Evans on Zionism meets Naziism.

    As for encouraging Bob1st, why praise him for coming up with the conventional line?

    1. Jeez, had forgotten about “Plumley”, that story was all over the media too, “cricket Umpire” and Dominatrix were always included.

      1. At the time I thought the whole Plumley Walker incident illustrated a society that displayed quite a quite a permissive attitude toward the characters involved. The double life of the victim was intriguing but any outrage was directed at the violence rather than their occupations.

  8. Ok, let’s talk about the Polky……….

    Let’s not. Let’s just wait for it to go through the process, and sentencing (if guity), then debate our reckons.

    I avoid MSM stories like this as I do the plague – as in those that frame them as salacious and accent an appeal to the emotional.
    OBVIOUSLY, the guy is a wanker and a prick. So was Arthur Allen Thomas in a sad sort of way.
    Just another of life’s casualties in this Wonder Whurl we’ve created. Pay it no mind pilgrims – keep shopping

  9. If Polky wasn’t a rich prick eye doctor, we wouldnt be on bail during his trial.

    Just saying.

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