Acquitted man testifies he deleted intimate photos after becoming murder suspect

Five years after Pauline Hanna was found dead and two years after her husband's acquittal, Philip Polkinghorne took the witness stand for the first time — not at a criminal trial, but at a coroner's inquest still searching for the truth of how she died. He explained the deletion of intimate photographs as an act of private shame, and described feeling betrayed by a justice system he had initially trusted. The inquest reminds us that a verdict of not guilty does not always close the wound a death leaves behind.