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The son of murdered Tokoroa teacher Lois Dear has offered the family of murdered Christchurch woman Emma Agnew his support.
Police earlier today confirmed that a body found north of Christchurch was that of Ms Agnew.
They said a post-mortem examination showed that she died of suffocation.
Kevin
McNeil said having a family member murdered is the "worst bloody thing you could go through".
Mr McNeil posted his offer on www.remembering.co.nz. He told nzherald.co.nz that if the family wanted him there than he would fly down to be with them.
"Strangers that have been through it knew exactly what we were going through. It's more to help them through the long haul. When they say something, you know what they've gone through," Mr McNeil said.
Ms Agnew's body was found on Monday night concealed by vegetation in forest adjoining the Spencer Park camping ground about 15km north of Christchurch.
A police scene examination of the area is continuing.
Meanwhile, the Solicitor General is investigating a Trade Me online discussion thread that published alleged personal details of the man arrested and charged with Ms Agnew's murder.
TV3 reported that the site included detailed information on 35-year-old Liam James Reid's childhood and some posts could be in contempt of court.
Crown Law spokeswoman Jan Fulstow said the site, along with other media outlets, was being investigated.
She said by the time Crown Law looked at the site, the material had been removed.
Trade Me's manager of trust and safety Dean Winter said the site received 20,000 postings a day and it was difficult to monitor all of them.
He said readers could complain about particular threads and that threads or individual comments could be pulled offline.
"If something is related to any suppression order or some similar order that comes through from the court than obviously we pull it very quickly, no questions asked," Mr Winter said.
He said the site erred on the side of caution, and in some situations, took advice from police.
Mr Winter said the site had not heard from the Solicitor General.
All submissions to nzherald.co.nz's online Your Views forum are pre-moderated - before they are published.
Kiwiblog writer David Farrar said he had received up to sixteen requests to have comments and posts pulled from his blog and been threatened with legal action once.
He said with thousands of posts a day, it was not possible to monitor all of them.
"It's like trying to plug a dam with corks," Mr Farrar said.
He said the suppressed police affidavit in the police raids case had appeared on a US based website and although it has since been taken down, thousands of people saw it.
"There has to be some sort of recognition that suppression orders have a limited effect in the internet age. Sure, they may work for one or two days but people like to talk and chat online," Mr Farrar said.
He said while there was legal liability to his site as a publisher, there was a general understanding that there was a common sense approach.
"For example: if someone was defamed in a comment on my blog, and I probably haven't seen the comment, yes they could try and sue me as well as the person who said it.
"Fairly counterproductive though because most judges would apply common sense to the situation. Now, if they asked me to remove it and I didn't, that could be fairly different," Mr Farrar said.
He said laws were still unclear around this issue and many had not been updated to take the internet into account.
"It's not a zero risk, you minimise the risk by being reasonable, by responding to requests if people make them and to a degree it does help that I have a posting policy. But it's not a get out of jail free card," Mr Farrar said.
Ms Fulstow said Crown Law would not be making any further comment.
The New Zealand Law Society was contacted for comment but declined.
