Grace Millane

[The Mad Monk]

Grace Millane, a British backpacker was murdered in New Zealand.

The person who is accused of her murder is on trial in Auckland.

The suspect can't, for legal reasons, be named.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-50312090

I am not asking for him to be named.

Why can't he be named?

[The Mad Monk]

flashbang said:

He has been named in other articles.

It isn't his name that I am interested in, but WHY can't he be named - in a murder trial?

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dukeboy749r said:

Totally bizarre - no idea what the reference to the blue pill was meant to infer?

imply

https://www.vocabulary.com/articles/chooseyourword...

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TVRnutcase said:

To answer the OPs first post - this will help.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/117058919/n...

T'ank yer kindly, sor.

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Greshamst said:

I really feel sorry for the parents. Having to hear the man who murdered your daughter tell what are most likely lies, that she was asking to be choked and requesting rough sex.

Perhaps the parents shouldn't have attended court to get further upset?

[The Mad Monk]

Watching the TV programme about the new aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth. The ship was in ? Dunno, somewhere in America? The man giving them all a briefing before they went ashore, said something like "Travel together, play together, return together". In other words, stay with your mates, don't go off on your own. He cited some sailor who had gone off on his own in some foreign port - never seen again.

The risk for a single woman must be so much greater.

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Jury find the accused guilty of murder.

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lyonspride said:

Ethnicity?

Sensitive subject in NZ at the moment, understandably.

Why is that?

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lyonspride said:

Christchurch?
Have you been asleep for the last 12 months?

I must have been.

What does "Christchurch?" mean?

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anonymous said:

[redacted]

He looks a bit like Jeremy Bamber?

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Dan_1981 said:

I heard on the radio this morning that he still can't be named but also that the reasons why he can't be named can't be published either??

This only applies to New Zealand, surely?

If a publication in the UK, or elsewhere, publishes his name, I don't see what they can do about it.