Two men charged with the murder of Ryan Woodford at a Taupō emergency housing motel have lost their fight to keep their names secret.
Marty Durham, 40, and Teina Williams, 31, appeared via audio-visual link in the High Court at Rotorua this morning charged with murder, and Justice Graham Lang lifted their interim name suppression.
The two men are accused of murdering Woodford, 30, on March 6. They have both entered not guilty pleas to the joint charge.
More than 20 family and friends of Woodford's packed the public gallery and, at the end of the case, hurled abuse toward the audio-visual screens.
Lawyers for Durham and Williams, Moana Dorset and Gerald Walsh, asked Justice Lang to continue name suppression because identity was going to be a factor in the pair's trial.