The New Zealand man was sentenced to life in prison for murdering a young British backpacker. The hiker's mother told the court a hole had been ripped in her heart by her daughter's stolen life.
A New Zealand man was sentenced to life in prison Friday for murdering a British backpacker whose mother told the court a hole had been ripped in her heart by her daughter’s stolen life.
The name of the 28-year-old man is being kept secret for now by court order, a restriction that’s sometimes imposed in the New Zealand judicial system for reasons such as another pending trial.Defense lawyers had claimed the death was accidental after the pair engaged in consensual erotic choking that went too far. A jury in November rejected that argument and found the man guilty.
“Grace was vulnerable. She was a young woman in a strange country, and you were a stranger who she trusted,” the judge said, according to news organization Stuff.Earlier, the victim’s mother Gillian Millane told the court via video link that the killer had ripped a hole in her heart by stealing her daughter’s life.
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