British backpacker Grace Millane was strangled to death, crammed into a suitcase and buried in a New Zealand woodland after a Tinder date in December 2018.
On Thursday her killer, a 28-year-old man, was sentenced to life imprisonment with minimum 17 year non-parole period.
The Courts of New Zealand said in a statement: "Overall, the circumstances of the murder showed a high-level of callousness, including: the intimate nature of the murder itself."
In his November 2019 trial, the prosecution argued that the man -- whose name cannot be released due to a suppression order -- "eroticized" Millane's death because of a "morbid sexual interest," and the court heard how he had taken "trophy" photos of her body and watched violent pornography while her body lay in the room.
