If it wasn t Grace, it would have been someone else : Top cop Scott Beard speaks out about Millane murder, expects more women to come forward
21 Dec, 2020 10:27 PM
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Anna Leask is a senior crime and justice reporter for the New Zealand Heraldanna.leask@nzherald.co.nz@AnnaLeask
Police are expecting more women to come forward and report alleged violence at the hands of Grace Millane s killer now that his name has been made public.
And they have said they want to hear from any woman who has a story to tell about Jesse Shane Kempson - vowing to investigate every new allegation and provide other survivors the help and support they need.
Updated: 22 Dec 2020, 10:23
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THE man who strangled backpacker Grace Millane in New Zealand raped another Brit tourist just months before the killing.
Jesse Kempson can now be named after an order banning his identification was lifted as he lost an appeal against his murder conviction and sentence.
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Grace Millane was last seen alive the day before her 22nd birthday in December 2018 in Auckland, New Zealand
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Kempson also raped another young Brit
It was revealed the 28 year old raped the other tourist eight months before killing Grace, whose body was later found buried in a shallow grave.
Just as he did with Grace, he lured the victim, then 21, into a drunken Tinder date before taking her back to his motel room.
KILLER CONMAN
Jesse Kempson: Grace Millane killer pretended he was CIA assassin and dying of cancer to lure, rape and terrorise women
Updated: 22 Dec 2020, 16:37
THE brute who murdered Brit backpacker Grace Millane was a serial fantasist who pretended he was a CIA spy and dying of cancer to target and rape women.
Jesse Kempson, 28, can now be named after a court order banning his identification was lifted as he lost an appeal against his conviction and sentence over Grace s killing in New Zealand.
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The Brit backpacker was killed while travelling around New ZealandCredit: PA:Press Association
He strangled the 21 year old in his studio apartment after the pair met on Tinder in December 2018, before burying her body in a shallow grave on the outskirts of Auckland.
Grace Millane s murderer named and exposed as Tinder rapist
The New Zealand man who callously murdered a British backpacker can finally be named, as it was revealed he had earlier raped another British tourist and had a record of violence towards women.
Jesse Kempson, aged 28, was given a life sentence for strangling Grace Millane in an Auckland hotel room in 2018 and burying her body in a shallow grave west of New Zealand s biggest city.
Kempson enjoyed name suppression during and after the trial and only today was that order was lifted by New Zealand s Supreme Court.
Jesse Shane Kempson was sentenced to 17 years in prison for murdering Grace Millane.(Stuff / Lawrence Smith)
Updated: 22 Dec 2020, 10:48
Stephen D Antal
Invalid Date,
THE man who strangled backpacker Grace Millane in New Zealand raped another Brit tourist just months before the killing.
Jesse Kempson can now be named after an order banning his identification was lifted as he lost an appeal against his murder conviction and sentence.
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Grace Millane was last seen alive the day before her 22nd birthday in December 2018 in Auckland, New Zealand
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Kempson also raped another young Brit
It was revealed the 28 year old raped the other tourist eight months before killing Grace, whose body was later found buried in a shallow grave.
Just as he did with Grace, he lured the victim, then 21, into a drunken Tinder date before taking her back to his motel room.