Overview
- The South Australian Supreme Court is hearing the trial of Raelene Polymiadis, who has pleaded not guilty to charges she injected her parents with insulin and caused their deaths.
- The court authorised public release of handwritten notes seized in searches of Polymiadis’s home and car that prosecutors say include lines such as “think I got away with it” and a list of questions to authorities.
- Jurors were played a covert police recording from a listening device in Polymiadis’s car in which she is heard praying, saying phrases reported as “thou shalt not kill” and referring to her parents not wanting to go to a nursing home.
- Prosecutors point to the notes, the recording and the fact both victims had insulin in their systems and that Polymiadis, a type 1 diabetic, had access to insulin; the defence says the material can be read as religious expression, misplaced guilt, or consistent with the parents having accessed insulin themselves.
- No verdict has been reached and the jury must weigh whether the notes and audio establish intent or causation, with the ongoing trial before Justice Sandi McDonald and family conflict over elder care a central human context to the case.