Name Suppression Of Manawatu Man Condemned By Child Advocacy Group

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…

Name Suppression For NZ Muso

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…