Grace Millane was killed in November 2018
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The man who was convicted of murdering British backpacker Grace Millane in New Zealand has lost his appeal against life imprisonment.
The killer was on Friday denied his bid to reduce his sentence, hours after New Zealand's Supreme Court made a last-minute order to keep his identity secret until a second appeal is completed.
The man murdered Ms Millane in December 2018. The jury at the trial heard that the 22-year-old from Essex was strangled to death on her birthday by the man she met on a dating app.
The defendant argued that her death was not murder but the result of rough sex that had gone wrong.