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The man who murdered British backpacker Grace Millane has been convicted of sex attacks against two more women, including the rape of one he met on Tinder.
Jesse Kempson can now be named after a supreme court ruling in New Zealand.
The court judgment also revealed that the 28-year-old has been convicted at two further trials in the past three months, of raping a woman he met on the dating app, Tinder, and of a series of offences against a former partner, including sexual violation by unlawful sexual connection, threatening to kill and assault with a weapon.
Warning: This story and related coverage of the trial contain graphic details that may be distressing for some readers.
More women are expected to come forward to the police now it has been revealed Grace Millane s murderer was a repeat sex offender.
The two women told the police what Kempson had done to them after they realised he was the man charged with killing Grace Millane.
Following the murder trial last year he went on to face two further trials at the High Court at Auckland.
In both, he was found guilty on all charges, including rape; and the sexual violation; physical, sexual, emotional and financial abuse of an ex-girlfriend.
Jesse Kempson is a liar.
He lied to Grace Millane. He lied to the women he dated. He lied to his flatmates. He lied to police. I ve always thought that if it wasn t Grace, it was going to be someone, Detective Inspector Scott Beard told RNZ s
Checkpoint, after Kempson was sentenced in February to life imprisonment with a minimum non-parole period of 17 years for Millane s murder. I m not a psychologist, so I can t talk about psychological profile, but what we do know is he is a liar. A number of times we proved he lied. He lied to the police, he lied to others.
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The officer in charge of the Grace Millane investigation says her mother hasn t had time to grieve after the loss of her daughter, her husband and dealing with a new lockdown in the UK.
The British backpacker was murdered in December 2018. Her father died of cancer this year and her mother has battled breast cancer.
And Christmas has been cancelled for a third of the UK population after a new strain of Covid-19 emerged.
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