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Dec 22, 2020 · As he prepared to join Grace on their night out, Kempson dropped into his local bar, the Bluestone Room, right next to the CityLife Hotel where he was living. ... Exactly what happened in the room ...
Nov 7, 2019 · The footage shown on Thursday began at 5.11pm and showed the defendant entering the Bluestone Room. Half an hour later, Ms Millane, in a black dress, was seen leaving the Base backpackers' hostel ...
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Nov 7, 2019 · Grace Millane's last movements were captured on CCTV. British backpacker Grace Millane and the man accused of her murder were spotted kissing on CCTV while on a Tinder date, a court heard. Footage ...
Feb 21, 2020 · ITV News reports that the pair “kissed repeatedly at the Bluestone Room [bar] before walking arm-in-arm a short distance into the lobby of the CityHigh hotel, where the defendant was staying”.
- Grace Millane's Family Speaks
- The Sentencing
- The Case
Millane's mother Gillian was one of three family members who read emotional victim impact statements to the court from the United Kingdom, via an audio-visual link. She sat in front of a camera, a framed photograph of Grace hanging on the wall behind her, to tell the court her daughter was her best friend. "We'd laugh together and make memories I w...
Crown prosecutor Brian Dickie sought a minimum non-parole period of 17 years. It was the Crown's position the 28 year old had "eroticised" the British backpacker's death, he said. He said the jury's verdict meant they agreed the man had taken intimate photographs of her body after she died. This, the disposal of Millane's body, the man's Tinder dat...
The killer was arrested the day before police found Millane's body in a suitcase buried in a shallow grave in the Waitākere Ranges. Judge Evangelos Thomas, who presided over the man's first court appearance in the District Court, refused to grant him interim name suppression. However, his name was kept secret after his lawyer Ian Brookie indicated ...
Nov 7, 2019 · In the hours before she disappeared Miss Millane and the defendant were seen at a burger bar in the Sky City development, before going to a Mexican cafe and then the Bluestone Room in Durham Lane.
Oct 3, 2021 · The two visited a bluestone room and left around 9:30, arm in arm. The next day was Grace’s 22nd birthday. But, Grace wasn’t replying to the birthday wishes from family and friends.
