The Crown says Philip Polkinghorne's obsession with sex worker Madison Ashton drove him to murder his wife. The former eye surgeon is accused of killing Pauline Hanna in 2021, though he claims her death was suicide. Prosecutor Alysha McClintock began her closing address yesterday. Felix Walton reports.
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