Struck-off lawyer who married killer wants to practise again
Davina Reid was struck off for smuggling contraband into prison.
A lawyer who was struck off after smuggling contraband into prison for her rapist and murderer client, who she later married, says she has worn a “cloak of shame” for long enough and should be allowed to practise law again.
Davina Reid launched her bid to return to the legal profession earlier this year and last week, at a hearing of the Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal, she said it had been eight years and it was time to return.
The hearing room was packed with friends and family as well as her new employer, former politician John Tamihere, who spoke in support of Reid.
In February 2015 Davina Murray, as she was then, was struck from the bar after she smuggled a cellphone, cigarettes, and a lighter to her client Liam Reid in Mt Eden Prison.
Reid is serving a life sentence for raping and killing deaf woman Emma Agnew in Christchurch in 2007, as well as the rape, attempted murder, and robbery of a 21-year-old student in Dunedin nine days later.
Murray - who has since married Reid and now uses his surname - was subsequently sentenced in the District Court to 50 hours’ community work for her offending.
The Lawyers and Conveyances Disciplinary Tribunal at the time found she was no longer fit to practise law.
Earlier this year she told NZME she had applied to be restored to the roll of barristers and solicitors.
“Justice is my passion,” she said. “I have a lot to offer the marginalised in society interfacing with the justice system.
Last week Davina Reid’s lawyer, Charl Hirschfield, told the tribunal his client had committed a serious wrong in bringing contraband into the prison, but she’d served her punishment.
“Indeed, it may never be forgotten.”
Hirschfield said many years had passed since the incident and Reid last week apologised to the law profession and to the wider community for her conduct.
Reid also took the stand and said she was truly sorry and she had made a mistake.
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