Murderer sues TV company

Convicted rapist and murderer Liam Reid has gone to the High Court to take action against the television production company which makes

Reid, who made headlines earlier this year around plans to wed disgraced lawyer Davina Murray in prison, applied for an injunction against South Pacific Pictures in the High Court in Auckland yesterday.

He is serving a preventive detention sentence for the rape and murder of deaf Christchurch woman Emma Agnew in 2007, and the rape and attempted murder of a second Dunedin woman.

Reid is considered one of this country’s worst killers, having previously told authorities he had an ambition to be a rapist and killer.

A date was set for the injunction hearing later in November.

South Pacific Pictures is New Zealand’s largest screen production company, operating for nearly 30 years. It is best known for producing Kiwi shows

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But it also produces the true crime documentary which examines high crimes.

South Pacific touts the show as ‘‘spine-chilling tales told in a mixture of stylistic recreations, real forensic and police evidence, interviews and archives. Although each episode follows the story of a homicide, the focus is not on the ‘‘gruesome and gore’’ but on the complexity of crime and cunning of crime-solvers.’’

Davina Murray was struck off by the Lawyers and Conveyancers Tribunal in 2015 after smuggling contraband to Reid, her thenclient, while he was serving time in Mt Eden Prison. profile