David White stuff.co.nz
Detective Inspector Scott Beard, who led the Grace Millane murder investigation, says "rough sex" is not a defence to murder.
Taxpayers have spent more than four hundred thousands dollars on legal fees to help the man who killed Grace Millane defend himself.
The 28-year-old, who now has name suppression until further court order, was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum non-parole period of 17 years for the murder of Grace, 21, who was from Essex in the UK.
The graduate of the University of Lincoln in England, died sometime between December 1 and 2, 2018 after she went on a Tinder date with the man in Auckland's CBD.