{"id":14793,"date":"2020-02-21T14:11:10","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T05:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/21\/a-life-sentence-grace-millane-leaves-trail-of-shattered-lives"},"modified":"2020-02-21T14:11:10","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T05:11:10","slug":"a-life-sentence-grace-millane-murder-leaves-trail-of-shattered-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14793","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A life sentence&#8217;: Grace Millane murder leaves trail of shattered lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As her murderer is sentenced to life in prison, the British backpacker\u2019s family say they are \u2018broken\u2019 by the horrific crime that shook New Zealand <\/p>\n<p>Detective Inspector Scott Beard, who led the<em><strong> <\/strong><\/em>the inquiry into the murder of British backpacker Grace Millane, described the horrific narrative of the case as \u201clike reading a novel\u201d; and on Friday the drama that has played out in New Zealand over the past 15 months reached its grim conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>For the 28-year-old New Zealand man who strangled Millane there was life behind bars with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/21\/grace-millane-man-jailed-for-life-for-killing-of-uk-backpacker\">non-parole period of 17 years<\/a>. By then he will be a middle-aged man. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/21\/a-life-sentence-grace-millane-leaves-trail-of-shattered-lives\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As her murderer is sentenced to life in prison, the British backpacker\u2019s family say they are \u2018broken\u2019 by the horrific crime that shook New Zealand Detective Inspector Scott Beard, who led the the inquiry into the murder of British backpacker Grace Mill&#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":[41,56,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14793","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=14793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14794,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14793\/revisions\/14794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}