Woman who died at Remuera home named as 63-year-old Pauline Hanna

Thursday, 8 April 2021

Police have named the woman who died in the upmarket Auckland suburb of Remuera on April 5.

She was Pauline Kay Hanna, also known as Pauline Kay Polkinghorne, aged 63, of Auckland.

Police swarmed the area after her body was found at a home in Upland Rd on Monday morning.

A post-mortem was carried out on Tuesday.

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On Monday, a neighbour said police had been at the property since before 9am.

She said she had not seen or heard anything out of the ordinary and police had not come to speak with her at any stage.

Another neighbour, who lives adjacent to the property, did not know what had happened and said police had been at the address “all day”.

Police said on Thursday the scene examination remains ongoing.

This is expected to continue for some days.