A page on an internet site containing photos and details of convicted murderer Antonie Dixon has been removed.
On Friday, a jury found Dixon guilty of murdering James Te Aute and injuring two women in a samurai sword attack in 2003.
The Department of Corrections was seeking legal advice on Saturday on how to get the page taken off the social networking site MySpace.
A page on the site featured photographs of Dixon and personal details, and used the name "Tony Dixon - also known as Samurai Sword".
On Sunday, a notice on the MySpace page said the user had either cancelled their membership or their account had been deleted.
The Department of Corrections says the pictures were taken by cellphone inside Auckland prison, but says prisoners cannot access the internet, and the page was created by an acquaintance outside prison.
Northern regional manager Warren Cummins says the department takes the use of cellphones in prison very seriously, and is introducing signal blocking technology.
Appeal planned
Antonie Dixon plans to appeal against his convictions for murder and intentional injury, says his lawyer.
Dixon's first conviction was overturned by the Court of Appeal, and his lawyer Barry Hart says there are substantial grounds for another appeal because of deficiencies in summing up by the judge.
Justice Williams took almost four hours to sum up the complex legal arguments, with much of that time being spent telling the jury how to consider the issue of insanity.
Outside court, crown prosecutor Simon Moore said Justice Williams did an extraordinary job, and said it was the toughest summing up that would confront any judge in this country.
Jury's verdict
On Friday night, the jury of six men and five women in the High Court at Auckland returned its verdict after more than a day of deliberations.
Dixon, 40, was accused of eight charges after he went on a violent drug-fuelled rampage from the rural settlement of Pipiroa near Thames to Auckland.
The jury also found him guilty of kidnapping, illegally using a firearm, and breaking and entering.
Dixon stood quietly in the dock as the verdict was read out, looking down at his feet.
The defence had argued that Dixon was insane on the day of the attacks, but the Crown says he carried out intentional and calculated crimes.
By finding him guilty, the jury accepted that Dixon was not insane and that he intended to fatally shoot James Te Aute - a stranger whom he had encountered in Auckland.
The trial is Dixon's second on most of the charges, after the first guilty verdict was overturned by the Court of Appeal. He has already served five years.
Dixon will be sentenced this week.
Cellphone
The Department of Corrections says all prisons will have blocking of cellphone communications by February of next year.
It says cellphone blocking is already operating at prisons in Northland, Otago and Hawkes Bay.
Around $6 million has been spent nationwide on the project.
