{NZ} More charges for sex worker murder-accused
Indigo Ace
More charges for sex worker murder-accused
29.12.05 1.00pm
A man charged with the murder of a Christchurch sex worker now faces
charges of abducting and raping another woman four days earlier.
Five charges were before the court when the 28-year-old man appeared
before Judge Philip Moran in Christchurch District Court today.
He is charged with raping, murdering, and kidnapping 24-year-old sex
worker Anna Louise Wilson on December 15. Her name was suppressed
until today's hearing.
He is also charged with abducting another woman for sex and raping her
on December 11 at Christchurch.
The name of the unemployed man, who has no fixed address, remains
suppressed.
The court hearing was quiet today, in contrast to the man's appearance
soon after his arrest, when women screamed at him from the back of the
court. On that occasion, he was remanded for a fortnight in custody
for a psychiatric report.
The police will allege he ran down the woman in central Christchurch
and killed her before she was put in the Avon River with her wrists
bound. Her body was found in the river in Dallington later that day.
Defence counsel Bridget Ayrey requested a further remand so that the
psychiatric report could be completed and sought the continuation of
the name suppression.
"Because the report is not completed even in a preliminary way, I seek
continuation of the interim order until the date of the
pre-depositions conference," she said. That conference will be on
March 2.
Judge Moran asked the police for confirmation that the alleged murder
victim's family no longer sought suppression of her name. Prosecutor
Sergeant Paul Brocas read to the court a letter from the officer in
charge stating that the victim's details could now be released. He
confirmed the police had consulted the family on the matter.
The judge granted the man's name suppression until March 2, but made
an order allowing publication of the woman's name.
"The victim's family no longer seek suppression of her name, and given
the public interest in this case and the serious charges and the fact
that the victim is dead, her name may now be published," he said.
- NZPA
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10361833
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