Grace Millane murder trial: jury retires to consider verdict
Judge tells jury that to return a verdict of murder they must be sure the accused intentionally killed Millane by strangling her
Justice Simon Moore has summed up in the murder trial of Grace Millane in Auckland’s high court, telling the jury that while it is clear the defendant has repeatedly lied that is not grounds to convict him of murder.
Millane died on the night of 1 December 2018 after a Tinder date with the accused, a 27-year-old New Zealand man whose name is suppressed. He has pleaded not guilty to murder. It is agreed that Millane died by strangulation in the accused’s hotel room in central Auckland, and that he later buried her body in a suitcase in a bushland area west of the city.