The man charged with the murder of a 43-year-old Greymouth mother of three on Sunday was granted interim name suppression when he appeared in the Greymouth District Court this morning.
The man was handcuffed in the dock and surrounded by two police constables and a prison officer.
He did not enter a plea to the charge of murdering Hayley Williams at her Marsden Road home, about 4pm on October 22.
Emotions ran high in court and two people were escorted out of the courtroom after yelling obscenities when the accused appeared.
The accused's lawyer Marcus Zintl sought interim name suppression.
