New Zealand jury convicts man of murdering 22-year-old British backpacker Grace Millane
A woman lights candles during a candlelight vigil for murdered British tourist Grace Millane at Cathedral Square in Christchurch, New Zealand, Wednesday, December 12, 2018
Prosecutors said the man strangled Millane to death, while defence lawyers argued that the pair had been engaged in consensual erotic choking that went too far. After he killed her, the man stuffed Millane’s body into a suitcase, drove to the Waitakere Ranges forest and buried her in a shallow grave, where police found her body a week later.Millane had been travelling through New Zealand as part of a planned yearlong trip abroad after graduating from university.
Prosecutor Brian Dickey said that at some point, Millane would have lost consciousness, meaning the man would have needed to keep strangling her after she went lifeless under his grip, news organization RNZ reported.
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