{"id":566504,"date":"2026-08-12T07:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T07:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/566504\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T07:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T07:02:11","slug":"pauline-hanna-inquest-coroner-orders-footage-of-polkinghorne-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/566504\/","title":{"rendered":"Pauline Hanna inquest: Coroner orders footage of Polkinghorne interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

A documentary company has been ordered to hand a coroner raw footage of an interview with Philip Polkinghorne.<\/p>\n

By Rowan Quinn of RNZ<\/a><\/p>\n

The documentary Polk: The Trial of Philip Polkinghorne aired on ThreeNow last year and featured excerpts of an interview with Polkinghorne.<\/p>\n

The interview was referred to on Tuesday during an inquest<\/a> into the 2021 death of Polkinghorne’s wife Pauline Hanna. He was found not guilty of her murder in 2024.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

A photograph of Pauline Hanna at the inquest. (Source: Pool\/RNZ)<\/p>\n

Coroner Tania Tehitaha has compelled the company Blonde Razor to hand over the four hours of raw footage.<\/p>\n

She is using section 120 of the Coroner’s Act to do that.<\/p>\n

RNZ understands the raw footage is from interviews done in 2022.<\/p>\n

Much of the discussion about handing over the footage was held behind closed doors, with journalists and the public told to leave the court.<\/p>\n

When they returned, Coroner Tehitaha said she only wanted to see aspects of the footage that related to specific aspects of the evidence.<\/p>\n

Found not guilty two years ago of murdering his wife, Philip Polkinghorne gave evidence today at an inquest into her death. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n

This stage of the inquest is looking into how Pauline Hanna died and the circumstances surrounding that, including whether her death was self inflicted.<\/p>\n

Coroner Tehitaha said it would likely take about a day to get the footage, and adjourned the hearing for the rest of Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Polkinghorne spent most of Tuesday giving evidence<\/a>, firstly his own account and then under cross examination from police counsel Alysha McClintock.<\/p>\n

The family of Pauline Hanna had been due to cross examine Polkinghorne on Wednesday but that is now delayed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A documentary company has been ordered to hand a coroner raw footage of an interview with Philip Polkinghorne.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-566504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}