Backpacker murderer identity

It's S.A. law that he cannot be identified at present, not the media hiding something - "The statutory suppression on his identity will cease when he pleads to the charge and the case leaves the Magistrates Court and moves to a higher jurisdiction".

Have they found he did in fact murdered someone? Last I read he only assaulted the 2 females.
And the Adelaide Advertiser cannot breach suppression as mentioned by #1 above.
If the Supreme Court judge decides, in the case that evidence of murder has discovered, (the judge) s/he can extend the suppression to the Supreme Court too.
Suppression relates to SA, and probably Australia, but other people in other countries would have seen his photo.
In South Australia, suspects first appear in the Magistrates and then the Supreme Court, not District.

Yeah i think gcn answered the question. Thank you.

No he didn't murder anyone yet but it did appear that he was having a good go.

Amuses me here in NZ you'll see a photo on TV but the person has name suppression. Sometimes name suppression continues to protect the victim or the offenders family.
BTW, have no idea of anything this post is about.

SA is, I think, unique in this. The idea is a person's reputation doesn't get trashed just because they are charged, but once committed to stand trial, onus swings the other way.
Media outlets outside SA are not bound by this, unless they can be read in SA.
So, for example, the Daily Tele could run the name in the paper, but not online. However, these days, these are all so interlinked they probably wouldn't bother with juggling how to put the name on print but not online, unless there was huge public interest outside SA in the person (such as if they were an MP or celebrity).

Yes re the connect between hard copy and internet copy being so intertwined - I have just trawled through a dozen or more newspapers in NZ, UK, Canada, Norway, Germany (gave up at that point) - wherever i found mention of the story it says same thing that the guy and the women's names have been suppressed. This would be because they now all are part of multi-national media concerns like Murdoch and all draw from same AAP or similar source. It appears the women's names are suppressed to protect their identity and the man's until he appears in court in April. All there is out there is some grainy photo of the guy sitting on beach with his face blurred out.

On a similiar vein , I used to laugh when i saw on the nightly news a sketch of the "Alleged perpetrator " and they pixelated the face on the sketch.

News reports also are talking of the possible link between the attacker and previous unsolved murders with the same MO.

Aha. Ta, Flowerbasket.
The picture of the 2 girls were shown on the AdelaideNow online newsbit a few days ago though.