IAN STEWARD
Auckland lawyer and Maori Party political candidate Davina Murray has been charged with illegally smuggling contraband to convicted murderer and rapist Liam Reid, who she believes is innocent.
Murray lost her name suppression today after she and her lawyer Barry Hart had battled for months to keep her name secret.
Murray was charged with delivering an iPhone 4, a packet of Marlboro cigarettes and a Bic lighter to Reid at Mount Eden prison on October 7 last year - two months after a smoking ban was introduced.
She had a new charge laid earlier this month of "holding a communication with him that might prejudice the safe custody of a prisoner" - in essence, passing on inappropriate information.
Reid is serving one of New Zealand's heaviest sentences for the 2007 rape and murder of deaf Christchurch woman Emma Agnew and the rape and attempted murder of another woman in Dunedin soon after.
He was originally sentenced to preventive detention with a 26-year minimum period, but that was later reduced to 23 years on appeal.
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