It was a sunny, crisp Tuesday afternoon in June when the girls attacked Pauline\u2019s mother Honorah on a secluded walkway at Victoria Park on the Port Hills.<\/p>\n
With \u201canimal ferocity\u201d they hit her over and over again with a brick inside a stocking. Police would later say the 46-year-old had been \u201cbattered to pieces\u201d.<\/p>\n
After a controversial trial, the teens were found guilty of murder \u2013 a jury rejecting their claims of insanity.<\/p>\n
The case made headlines around the world, its infamy elevated in the 90s with the release of Sir Peter Jackson\u2019s film Heavenly Creatures.<\/p>\n
In 2024 Herald podcast A Moment In Crime covered the case. <\/p>\n
Podcast writer and host, senior journalist Anna Leask looked back at the crime \u2014 and spoke exclusively to Juliet\u2019s brother Jonathan about the aftermath.<\/p>\n
Seventy years on, early in 2024, hoping a journalist would look into his sister\u2019s story and find out if there was any mechanism under New Zealand law to get her conviction retrospectively altered, he approached the Herald.<\/p>\n
Juliet, who changed her name to Anne Perry after prison and went on to sell more than 20 million crime novels, died in April 2023.<\/p>\n
Only then did Jonathan feel he could speak out about her life \u2014 and his strong belief she was never mentally sound.<\/p>\n
More from Jonathan about his sister\u2019s life can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n He spoke at length to the Herald for a feature and podcast episode about his family\u2019s dark past. <\/p>\n Jonathan Hulme believed his older sister was insane at the time of the murder. <\/p>\n \u201cShe did not regard herself as being psychotic or being mad, but it was pretty clear to me looking at it,\u201d said Jonathan.<\/p>\n \u201c[Juliet] had a major psychotic disorder \u2026 that was basically my opinion.”<\/p>\n A Moment in Crime is available on iHeartRadio<\/a>, Apple Podcasts<\/a>, Spotify<\/a> or wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes are released monthly.<\/p>\nJonathan Hulme and his sister Juliet – then known as Anne Perry – having a lunch break together. Photo \/ Screenshot from Anne Perry Interiors<\/p>\n