One of the men accused of murdering Fuk-Fu Joseph Kwok and Mei Han Chong in Auckland last year can now be named.
He is Shu Man Poon, 42.
He was arrested shortly after police announced in November that 67-year-old Chong's body was found in Greenhithe. Her husband Kwok, 66, had been found dead at their Ellerslie home by a family member.
He had been stabbed several times. She died of blunt force injuries to her head.
Poon and another man, 26, face two murder charges each over the deaths.
They've denied the charges and are set to go to trial next year.
The younger man – who cannot be named – is also charged with unlawfully taking a vehicle belonging to Kwok.
And in a separate incident, the pair have also been charged with conspiring to murder another person.
Poon's application for continued name suppression was refused by Justice Christine Gordon in the High Court at Auckland this morning – and he did not seek an interim order to enable an appeal, meaning his name can now be published.
The basis of Poon's application was in relation to his mother's health.
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