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Court elects to protect identities of four men accused of killing City Kickboxing’s Fau Vake with ‘Coward Punch’

The New Zealand Herald reports that four men who have been charged in relation to the death of pro MMA fighter Fau Vake have been granted interim name suppression until June 23. This means that it is prohibited to publish the men’s names in media reports.

NZ Herald also reports that on of the men now faces charges of manslaughter and that all of their cases have been transferred to the country’s High Court.

Vake, who trained at City Kickboxing with UFC champions Israel Adesanya and Alex Volkanovski, was attacked in the early hours of May 16 in Auckland’s city centre.