{"id":11272,"date":"2019-11-19T11:31:57","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T02:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/19\/grace-millane-trial-auckland-new-zealand-defence-witness"},"modified":"2019-11-19T11:31:57","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T02:31:57","slug":"grace-millane-suspect-had-no-motive-to-murder-uk-backpacker-says-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11272","title":{"rendered":"Grace Millane suspect had no motive to murder UK backpacker, says defence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Expert for defence says no sign of violence on Millane\u2019s body though some bruising consistent with being restrained<\/p>\n<p>Defence lawyers for the New Zealand man accused of murdering Grace Millane have told a jury the accused had no motive to murder her, that there were no signs of violence in the hotel room, or on Millane\u2019s body.<\/p>\n<p>A 27-year-old man, whose name is suppressed, has pleaded not guilty to murdering the British backpacker on the night of 1 December last year. Prosecutors allege Millane was murdered by the accused in his hotel room after a Tinder date, while the defence says she died accidentally while being consensually strangled during sex.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/19\/grace-millane-trial-auckland-new-zealand-defence-witness\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expert for defence says no sign of violence on Millane\u2019s body though some bruising consistent with being restrainedDefence lawyers for the New Zealand man accused of murdering Grace Millane have told a jury the accused had no motive to murder her, that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":660,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/660"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11273,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11272\/revisions\/11273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}