Flawed Aguer Akech investigation shows why Victoria’s blanket suppression law is not fit for purpose

Guardian Australia has uncovered a series of flaws in the Victoria police investigation of the murder of Aguer Akech but we cannot name the officers involved because the case originated in the children’s court. Photograph: Joel Carrett/AAP

It’s a law that was designed to protect children.

But in one recent case, it also prevents the naming of police officers involved in a botched murder investigation – a prosecution case described by one of Victoria’s most experienced judges as so “extraordinary” she had never seen anything like it.