six months after the trial on 28 September 1975 at Wellington, shortly after holding his just-born first grandson, Piers. Subsequent contemporary debate Debate over his guilt or innocence continued long after his death. A book published in 2006 by C.H (Kit) Bennetts, the SIS officer who had first observed Sutch, reasserted the claim that he was guilty. In an editorial, the New Zealand Herald applauded the publication of the book, and said "Bennetts' unauthorised account has done the SIS a service". On 9 May 2008, most of the SIS file on the Sutch and the trial were declassified. The files contained no new material information. On the other hand a Top Secret 1976 report by chief ombudsman Sir Guy Powles found that SIS actions had been unlawful when they burgled and bugged his office. In August 2014, the University of Cambridge released details from the KGB files from the Wellington Embassy that they held in archives that had been provided by Soviet defector Vasili Mitrokhin in 1992. According to Phil Kitchen of The Dominion Post, "The documents don't name Sutch but the details clearly identify him and state he was recruited [by the KGB] in 1950." If the person was indeed Sutch, he was recruited while representing New Zealand at the United Nations, and continued contact with the KGB for 24 years, including 15 years when he was employed in high Government office. Sutch's daughter did not accept the evidence, stating: "It is well known that KGB agents in general were desperate to talk up any contacts they had because they were under pressure from their superiors". Personal life On 12 January 1934 at Wellington, Bill Sutch married Morva Milburn Williams, a schoolteacher. There were no children of the marriage. His marriage to Morva was dissolved on 2 February 1944, and he married Shirley Hilda Stanley Smith (1916–2008), a lecturer and later a lawyer, in Auckland on 2 June that year. They had one daughter, Helen, who was economic adviser to Prime Minister David Lange and rose to a prominent position with the World Bank. In 1953 Bill and Shirley commissioned a house (the Sutch House) in the Wellington suburb of Brooklyn designed by the prominent Austrian architect Ernst Plischke who lived and worked in New Zealand from 1939-1963. Two biographies have been published of Shirley and her marriage to Sutch; Shirley Smith: An Examined Life Sarah Gaitanos 2019 was