'Help me to show emotion': Jury played secret recording, police interview of accused parent killer
A Supreme Court jury has heard a covert police recording of an Adelaide woman accused of murdering her parents allegedly praying to God for help to stay calm but "show emotion" as she drove to a police interview.
In a dramatic courtroom scene, prosecutors revealed a covert police recording to the jury in the trial of Raelene Polymiadis, who is accused of murdering her parents, Brenda and Lynton Anderson. The recording allegedly captures the accused praying to God and speaking in tongues, pleading for guidance to remain calm, focused, and to show emotion during her police interview.
Police also played a recorded police interview with the 28-year-old, during which she repeatedly expressed her fear of being in trouble for her parents' deaths and her guilt over the alleged insulin injections. She described her parents' reluctance to enter a nursing home and her own struggle with type 1 diabetes, which requires insulin injections.
Prosecutors argue she is accused of allegedly injecting her elderly parents with insulin 14 months apart in 2022 and 2023, despite the couple not being diabetic.
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