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The man who murdered British backpacker Grace Millane in New Zealand has been convicted of sex attacks on two more women.
In February, he was jailed for a minimum of 17 years for murdering Miss Millane in his hotel room in Auckland in December 2018.
The Millane family said they do not think about him or speak his name .
In October, Kempson was convicted of eight charges relating to various attacks including using a knife against a woman between November 2016 and April 2017.
The woman said something inside of him snapped when he got angry and said he had held a knife to my throat .
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Killer, whose name can now be reported as Jesse Kempson, also terrorised his girlfriend for months
Tributes are placed at a memorial for Grace Millane after her killing in December 2018 in Auckland, New Zealand. Photograph: Mark Baker/AP
Tributes are placed at a memorial for Grace Millane after her killing in December 2018 in Auckland, New Zealand. Photograph: Mark Baker/AP
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Mon 21 Dec 2020 17.20 EST
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The man who murdered British backpacker Grace Millane in New Zealand raped another British tourist just months earlier, it can be revealed, after the convicted killer lost his appeal for his name to be suppressed.
The killer of a young 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, 28, was convicted of murdering Grace Millane by strangling her in a hotel in Auckland, New Zealand, after meeting her via the Tinder dating app on 1 December 2018 - the day before her 22nd birthday.
His name had been suppressed because he had faced two further trials, but that order has been lifted by New Zealand s Supreme Court after he lost an appeal against his murder conviction and sentence.
It has also been revealed for the first time that he raped another British tourist eight months before he murdered Ms Millane and has also been convicted of a series of offences against a former partner.
Extravagant stories
Kempson spent the years prior to his arrest moving between Auckland properties, frequently posting within Facebook groups for people hunting down flats.
One former flatmate of Kempson s told Newshub soon after his arrest that while he was initially chatty and reasonably easy to live with , he eventually became aggressive . [He had] a lot of stories that very quickly stopped making sense, she told Newshub. If you would ever question his stories he would become incredibly defensive.
The recounting of extravagant stories is consistently brought up by people who knew Kempson.
Many were heard by the court during his trial. That includes claims that he was an oil company manager, the cousin of a prominent All Black, that he had gang connections, was friends with police officers, and had cancer.
British backpacker Grace Millane s murderer named as Jesse Kempson, sexual violence trials revealed
21 Dec, 2020 09:58 PM
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He is Jesse Shane Kempson.
And it can be revealed Kempson faced two further trials for violent sexual offending against two other women, one of whom was also a Brit who he met on the dating app Tinder and raped in a motel room.
The 28-year-old Auckland man s identity was due to be revealed last Friday, but with just minutes before an 11am deadline, the Supreme Court decided to keep suppression in place until it could make a final determination.
Today, the top court lifted suppression by declining leave to challenge the Court of Appeal s ruling.