The uproar over the decision to grant permanent name suppression to a ‘prominent’ man convicted of downloading and distributing indecent images of young girls continued today with a statement from the Sensible Sentencing Trust. Garth McVicar says the judgment has undermined public confidence in the NZ justice system and that it puts criminals ahead of…
On 6 February 2010 we reported on the ridiculous decision to suppress the name of a ‘prominent’ man convicted in Palmerston North Court of downloading more than 300,000 indecent images, many of them of children. Read it here. The man, who lives in the Manawatu and who was caught in an international FBI investigation, was…
The furore over New Zealand’s name suppression laws is going to be given a fresh impetus with the announcement that permanent name suppression has been granted to a “prominent” Manawatu man convicted of downloading more than 300,000 pornographic images, “many of them children“: “The man, who was charged with 25 counts of possessing objectionable material…
The new national game of ‘Name Suppression – pin the tail on the Ass’, which is very much in the news at the moment, reached the level of a Pythonesque farce when it was revealed that the man accused of attempting to murder a police officer (Jeremy Snow) in Papatoetoe just before Christmas (see blog…
Leave aside for one moment the debate over whether the ‘world famous in NZ‘ “muso” convicted of a sex offence against a 16 year old female deserved the benefit of permanent name suppression and whether or not he should be named. A few important points seem to have been either forgotten about or have been…
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