WA: Quotes from the Hancock inquest
Quotes from the inquest into the death of Lang Hancock:
"I'm not the kind of person who marries for money." - Rose Porteous.
"I did not hate Mr Hancock - I would not have lived with him for nine and a half years.
Let's say money was the motive, (then) three years would have been enough. Mr Hancockwas not a fool of a man ... he could have divorced me if he wanted to." - Rose Porteouson her marriage to Mr Hancock.
"Your worship, I have been accused of sleeping with every man in Australia ... I wouldhave been a very busy woman." - Rose Porteous to the coroner.
"For anyone else it would be a scream, but for me it's just raising my voice." RosePorteous on whether she had screamed at Mr Hancock.
"He never denied me anything, I didn't have to harass him." - Rose Porteous on whethershe continually harassed her husband to get what she wanted.
"The effect on my personality was like complete 'zonk out'. I was like I was drunk.
When he died I had no more pethidine ampules because I resorted to drinking vodka." -Rose Porteous on her past drug addiction.
"In February and March he was telling me the marriage had been a charade. He went sofar as to say `she was the most evil person I have ever met' ... and Dad is not one tomake things up." - Gina Rinehart on her father's alleged decision to divorce Ms Porteousand cut her out of his will just before he died in 1992.
"We sure are ... let me say that being dragged through this inquest is costing us afortune." - Willie Porteous on whether he and Rose were being billed by their lawyers.
"I've tried everything already. I've harassed and badgered him, what else can I do,how do we go about it, do we poison him? Do we shoot him?. Do you know any contract killersin Australia?" - Julian Teodoro giving evidence that Ms Porteous begged him to help herkill Mr Hancock.
"I do not accept that the death was a homicide." - Coroner Alastair Hope, announcinghis findings.
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KEYWORD: HANCOCK QUOTES
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