A jury has been told that a rope found at Phillip John Polkinghorne's home failed a tension check that would mean it could bear the weight of a person. The retired eye surgeon is on trial for allegedly murdering his wife, Pauline Hanna and staging it as a suicide, Finn Blackwell reports.
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