{"id":14998,"date":"2020-02-26T09:33:25","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T00:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2020\/feb\/26\/why-are-new-zealanders-still-not-allowed-to-know-the-identity-of-grace-millanes-killer"},"modified":"2020-02-26T09:33:25","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T00:33:25","slug":"why-are-new-zealanders-still-not-allowed-to-know-the-identity-of-grace-millanes-killer-andrew-geddis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14998","title":{"rendered":"Why are New Zealanders still not allowed to know the identity of Grace Millane&#8217;s killer? | Andrew Geddis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have had a history of suppressing information about those facing trial, but it is unclear if it can survive in the era of Facebook, Google and Instagram<\/p>\n<p>British backpacker Grace Millane\u2019s murderer was last week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/21\/grace-millane-man-jailed-for-life-for-killing-of-uk-backpacker\">sentenced to life imprisonment<\/a>, with a minimum non-parole period of 17 years.<\/p>\n<p>However, the killer\u2019s identity has not been published in New Zealand. When convicting Millane\u2019s killer, Justice Simon Moore extended an existing suppression order that not only prohibits his naming, but also the reasons for making it.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2020\/feb\/26\/why-are-new-zealanders-still-not-allowed-to-know-the-identity-of-grace-millanes-killer\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have had a history of suppressing information about those facing trial, but it is unclear if it can survive in the era of Facebook, Google and InstagramBritish backpacker Grace Millane\u2019s murderer was last week sentenced to life imprisonment, with a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1036,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,86,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-law","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1036"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15000,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14998\/revisions\/15000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}