Grace Millane inside the lift in her hotel with the murdererThe man who killed the British backpacker Grace Millane in his New Zealand hotel room and then watched porn and took intimate photos of her body has appealed his murder conviction and life imprisonment sentence. The man, 28, was given a life sentence in February for strangling Millane, from Essex, during consensual sex on December 1, 2018, the eve of her 22nd birthday. The killing, after the pair matched on the Tinder dating app, shocked New Zealanders and prompted Jacinda Ardern, the prime minister, to give an emotional apology to Millane’s family. The killer, whose identity remains suppressed in New Zealand, smuggled Millane’s body out of his hotel room in Auckland after going on a Tinder date with another woman. He later buried his victim

Source: The Times August 06, 2020 08:03 UTC