Brit backpacker Grace Millane ‘was murdered during rough sex while on Tinder date’, trial in New Zealand hea – The Sun, Thesun.co.uk
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BRIT backpacker Grace Millane was killed during rough sex while on a Tinder date, a court heard.
Her alleged killer, who cannot be named for legal reasons, claims Grace asked him to choke her and she died accidentally.
Grace’s parents David and Gillian Millane arrive with Detective Inspector Scott Beard at the Auckland High Court as the trial gets underwayCredit: Getty Images – Getty
But the prosecution argued it was murder, saying it was obvious from the 27 – year-old defendant’s actions after her death that there was no accident.
Grace, 22, was last seen alive the day before her birthday in December 2018 in Auckland, New Zealand.
Grace’s parents David and Gillian, of Wickford, Essex, watched as prosecutor Robin McCoubrey told the court she had been strangled until she bled through her nose.
He said her alleged killer, 27, then spent an hour researching how to dispose of a body, watched hardcore porn on his phone and took a series of intimate snaps.
The next day, he bought a suitcase in which he would later stuff her body and bury it in remote woodland.
He hired a car and bought cleaning equipment to “calmly, coldly and methodically” remove traces of Grace’s blood from his carpet, said Mr McCoubrey.
At the same time, the jury heard, he arranged another Tinder date with another woman who he met the same day Grace lay dead on his floor.
Ian Brookie, defending, today told the jury that although he did not blame Grace for her own death, it was an accident, not murder, “when an act designed to enhance their sexual pleasure went wrong and she died as a result ”.
“What’s important here is that they were both keen to give it a go and they did,” said Mr Brookie.
However Mr McCoubrey told the court Grace’s death was no accident, and said it was obvious from the 27 – year-old defendant’s actions after her death.
Grace’s body was found buried in dense woodland west of the city a week after she and the man were captured on CCTV entering the CityLife hotel
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