Sweetpuff Polky, bloated boomer privilege and a case that should never have gone to trial
There now has to be serious questions over the Police prosecution of Sweetpuff Polky.
This case should NEVER have been brought to trial.
The Police case was pathetic and totally circumstantial.
Where the fuck did they get off bringing a case with so little scientific evidence that he had actually murdered his wife, dragged her body into the hallway and staged a suicide.
Come on, there was nothing other than the extreme meth use and prostitute double life used to shock and disgust a jury.
This was a trial by slander, this wasn’t a scientific examination of the facts.
It was parasitically ghoulish coverage gawking into the minutia of a damaged relationship swamped in lust, money and meth.
So. Much. Meth.
Sweet Puff Polky.
The trial has been a loquacious gaucheness that stumbled and gaped at a murder case that managed to boil down the facade of the Professional Middle Class Boomers into a privilege puddle of drug fuelled orgies on a burning planet at the end of Late Stage Capitalism.
Why was Pauline Hanna’s lonely grief and intimate pain exposed so pornagraphically and ultimately – totally needlessly to the public?
Pauline Hanna deserved more in death than this Police prosecution gave her.
Her intimate pain should have been given dignity, not a bullshit prosecution driven by the cost of a 16moth investigation!
Heads should roll within Police prosecution that this was Evan allowed to go to trial.
This was a pitiful and grim examination of bloated boomer privilege that should sicken us all but none of us should have seen any of it in the first place.
This humiliation should have been privately buried with Pauline.
What a terribly sad and ugly thing to have experienced.
Meanwhile the planet burns and Late Stage Capitalism continues to meltdown, our pearl clutching voyeurism will need a new distraction soon and then Pauline’s grave can finally rest.
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As I said on the previous Polky post–if the pair had been a Lion Red guzzling, herbed up, working class couple living in a rented dump…there would have been little media interest.
“Zero Media Channel Interest” is a thing, as it always has been for issues that hit the majority of us, such as defunding respite care, mental health, disabled, kids lunches and NGOs. We know the rest of the list.
100% JUST HEAD LINES BECAUSE OF WHO THEY ARE ,Shit media these days .
The news orgs only publish it if the public want it… and the audience lapped it up.
Stop blaming “the media” and start looking in the mirror.
At least twice, by RNZ and TVNZ, I was told the public were “captivated” by this trial.
I call bullshit on that. When two podcasts are being made during the trial, it was our MSM that was captured. Repeating every lurid detail like the old school neighbourhood gossip.
Then they wonder why trust in media and police is falling.
Yep
When the police get it wrong, they sure get it wrong. Their complete inadequacy has been laid bare for us all to see.
The squalid and pathetic life the defendant was leading, was just a red-herring that the police swallowed. They thought it would be easy.
This is about Ms. Hanna’s life and her life was spiraling out of control which was sad enough and now, we all know about it. She got no privacy or dignity thanks to police mistakes and press intrusion.
I had the same surname as someone who died tragically (but not murdered) decades ago. He wasn’t related. We knew nothing about him. But having the same name, my family was contacted by the TV channels hoping to dig up some tantalizing tidbit that no-one else had found.
They intrude upon the privacy of the actual victim, their families and friends plus, total strangers, in hopes of gaining the advantage. Ghouls.
I hope this case is remembered for the way it has very publicly highlighted how unprofessional and poorly trained the police can be and the malicious, salacious media.
It is the way our justice system is setup. Pressure is put on the police for results, they find someone and then put a huge amount of effort into getting that conviction, so much so that they lose sight of whether the person is likely to be guilty. Our history is riddled with it. Just tunnel vision.
Hell according to the assistant police commissioner, Bruce Hutton had “integrity beyond reproach” despite planting evidence in the arthur allen thomas case.
And the media are just attention seeking whores determined for clicks at any cost
I see the so called friends and family are trying to swoop on the family cash and assets now .Maybe thats what was behind them pushing the fiction that he killed her in the first place .
Polky was definitely an interesting chap, who led a bizzarre lifestyle.
What a waste of time and money, I was sick to death seeing it on the front pages of NZ’s leading newspapers.
Mate we cant even use those news papers to wrap the fish and chips now because they are shit .
Maybe his mistress is actually an AI illusion .She has a few false parts by the look of things and she never turned up in person at the trial .Does she actually exist ?
The police have a habit of wanting to be the jury and judge along with their close relationship with the prosecution as they seek to punish anyone they don’t approve of. Far a change the defense had a decent legal team.
Polky definitely took his poking seriously.
There was some doubt as to what caused her death. She had told friends he had tried to strangle her and showed them how he did it. He researched about the possibility of thrombosis in the legs caused by strangulation before she died. He was erractic and violent and she was scared of him. The rope she apparently hung herself from looked rigged and wouldn’t support her full weight. Also, was she the type to hang herself if she was suicidal, wouldn’t she have gone for an overdose? Hanging is dramatic and violent and she didn’t seem the sort of person to go for a sorfid dramatic suicide if she was going end her misery and kill herself. Yes, there was certainly enough doubt about the cause of her death to go to trial. However, the lurid serialized blow by blow of the trial was sad and pathetic, as you point out. Her friends and family think he killed her and his callous, abusive and cruel behaviour towards her doesn’t do much to make him seem innocent of her death. He got away with it because her injuries were not enough to conclusively prove he strangled her or she hung herself.
“Also, was she the type to hang herself if she was suicidal, wouldn’t she have gone for an overdose?”
On the money Lone Comet. Middle age woman – women full stop – simply don’t hang themselves. Very unusual. So, if this didn’t happen what did? How did she die, if not by her own hand? Yes, looks like he did get away with staging her suicide. The Crown Prosecution made a meal of it and beyond reasonable doubt the jury had no other option but to find him Not Guilty.
One other point, if you consider the circumstantial evidence against Polkinhorne flimsy, consider the evidence against Scott Watson. Two golden hairs in a bag with a hole in it, a rigged photo and countless witness recantations in a complete frame up by police. Polkinghornes looks watertight by comparison. What’s the difference? Class?
Gerald Hope if I recall had some standing in the Marlborough community and I wondered at the time if the the arrest of Scott Watson was related to this – circumstantial evidence against Watson aside. Yes, class does matter. Although I believe Gerald Hope is subsequently on record as expressing some concern over police conduct leading up to the court case and over how the Crown presented some of the evidence to the jury.