Grace Emmie Rose Millane went missing in Auckland, New Zealand in December 2018. Her body was found in the Waitākere Ranges the following day. A 26-year-old man, Jesse Shane Kempson, was charged with her murder. Kempson’s name was suppressed by New Zealand courts, meaning it could not be published in New Zealand. However, some international media outlets chose to publish it contrary to the New Zealand court order. He claimed that she had died during consensual sex.
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Grace Emmie Rose Millane went missing in Auckland, New Zealand in December 2018. Her body was found in the Waitākere Ranges the following day. A 26-year-old man, Jesse Shane Kempson, was charged with her murder. Kempson’s name was suppressed by New Zealand courts, meaning it could not be published in New Zealand. However, some international media outlets chose to publish it contrary to the New Zealand court order. He claimed that she had died during consensual sex. He was convicted by a unanimous guilty verdict and later sentenced to life imprisonment, with a minimum non-parole period of 17 years. He filed an appeal against his conviction, which was dismissed by the Court of Appeal on 18 December 2020. It was also revealed that he had been convicted on multiple rape and abuse charges relating to two other women in October and November 2020. The suppression order was lifted by the New New Zealand Supreme Court on 22 December 2020, triggering an interim name suppression period of 20 working days. The New Zealand Bar Association criticised the foreign media for publishing his name in an email it sent to subscribers of its newsletter on trending topics in the country.
The association claimed that 100,000 searches had been done of the name within the country within the week of his trial. The name of the man who was remanded in custody and appeared in the High Court on January 16, 2019, included Kempson and Millane. Millane was from Wickford, Essex and was on a backpacking tour during her gap year. She had recently graduated from the University of Lincoln with a bachelor’s degree in advertising and marketing. She was last seen at 9: 41 pm at the CityLife Hotel on Queen Street with Jesse Kempson. Police asked for the public’s help in finding a shovel they believed was related to the inquiry. A shovel fitting the police description was found on 13 December. Police also requested public help tracing the movements of a rental car Kempson leased between 2 and 3 December. The car had subsequently been re-leased and was located on 8 December in Taupo, 275 km south of Auckland. Police initially said that there was no evidence of foul play, but later gathered evidence that she was ‘no longer alive’
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