A New Zealand man is sentenced to life in prison for murdering a young British backpacker, whose mother told the court the stealing of her daughter's life had ripped a hole in her heart. By nickgbperry.
Gillian Millane, mother of murdered British backpacker Grace, holds up a photo during her victim impact statement via video link from England, at the sentencing of the man found guilty of her murder at the Auckland High Court in Auckland, New Zealand, Friday, Feb. 21, 2020. The killer, who has name suppression, has been sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum non-parole period of 17 years.
She went out for drinks with him before returning to his hotel apartment in central Auckland, where he killed her. He stuffed her body into a suitcase, drove to a forest and buried it in a shallow grave, where police found it a week later. Murder typically comes with a life sentence in New Zealand, so at stake at Friday’s sentencing at the Auckland High Court was the number of years the killer would serve in jail before becoming eligible for parole. The judge set the minimum non-parole period at 17 years after the defense had argued for 12.
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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