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Updated : 6 months ago. A year-old New Zealand man who murdered a British woman backpacker was handed life imprisonment with a minimum of 17 years behind bars by the Auckland High Court on Friday. Grace Millane, 22, went missing in Auckland on Dec. The man, whose name has been suppressed by the court, was convicted for the murder by a jury on Nov. Justice Simon Moore said in court that the biggest decision in sentencing the killer was settling on the minimum number of years he must spend in jail without chance of release, state broadcaster 1News reported.

Ultimately, Justice Moore opted for a non-parole period of 17 years – one of the longest stretches ever handed down to a murderer in New Zealand, 1NEWS said. The convicted man met Millane through dating app Tinder while she was backpacking through New Zealand. Both shared drinks on the eve of her 22nd birthday, the day she went missing, and later went to his downtown Auckland apartment. Police found her body several days later in a shallow grave in a bushland just a few metres from a scenic drive in the Waitakere Ranges.

The man confessed Millane died in his apartment but pleaded not guilty to murder, and his lawyers argued that she died accidentally during consensual sex . But prosecutors said the accused had murderous intent and Millane was strangled to death. The killing shocked New Zealand, where serious crime was once considered relatively rare and its cities and countryside considered safe.