Essex backpacker's killer guilty of attacking others
Grace Millane's murderer has been convicted of two other violent offences against women
The man who murdered Grace Millane a day before her 22nd birthday in Auckland, New Zealand, can now be named as Jesse Shane Kempson following a court ruling.
Kempson, aged 28, killed Ms Millane, from Wickford, by strangling her in a hotel room after meeting each other via a dating app.
Since being convicted, he has been found guilty of other violent offences in two recent trials, and was found guilty last month of raping woman he also met on Tinder.
Other convictions include threatening to kill, two charges of assault with a weapon, three assaults and two counts of sexual violation by unlawful sexual connection at a trial in October according to court documents.
Kempson's identity was kept secret after his defence counsel argued naming him would prevent him getting a fair trial, but New Zealand Supreme Court has since made it public.
He was convicted for Ms Millane's murder by a jury in November 2019 and sentenced to at least 17 years in prison.
In sentencing, Justice Simon Moore told Kempson his actions amounted to "conduct that underscores a lack of empathy and sense of self-entitlement and objectification."
On Friday, the judges upheld that saying: "Ms Millane was particularly vulnerable, being intoxicated, in a strange apartment, naked, in the arms of a comparative stranger with whom she thought she could trust, and with his hands around her throat."
Ms Millane's father David Millane, 62, died last month after a battle with cancer, New Zealand Police said.
On Friday the force issued a statement from the Millane family, who said they were `"pleased at the outcome that has been reached"' in the loss of the appeal.
The family thanked the police, judges, prosecutors and the people of New Zealand and said "Grace, you are, and will always be, our sunshine."
They added: "Grace was a kind, fun-loving daughter, sister, granddaughter, niece, aunty, cousin and friend with her whole life ahead of her.
"She was enjoying the first of what would have been a lifetime of adventures before her life was so cruelly and brutally cut short by her murderer.
"Her sense of fun, her sense of adventure, her love of travel and exploring, along with her ability to light up any room she walked into it with her generosity of spirit, are memories we as a family cherish and how we will forever remember her."