A close family friend of Grace Millane is so concerned ongoing suppression breaches could jeopardise a trial she's written to UK media asking them to stop naming the accused killer. And the papers have explained why they defied the Auckland judge's order. The Telegraph and the Daily Mail were two of several British media organisations to name the 26-year-old man charged with Millane's murder, days after she arrived in Auckland as part of a one-year solo OE.
The Telegraph's editorial compliance executive Sian White responded to concerns about suppression breaches saying, "the law in New Zealand does not apply".
The Justice Minister plans to tell Google breaching suppression orders is unacceptable.
Top Google executives from the UK and US will meet Justice Minister Andrew Little in New Zealand next week after Google ran the murder accused's name in a mass hot topics email to subscribers.
Also today: An Auckland teenager has been sentenced to home detention after killing a 15-year-old in a drunken hit-and-run - and later posting an insensitive social media post of herself in an orange prison jumpsuit.