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Despite the jury returning a unanimous decision in a matter of hours, Kempson's name has remained protected. Last Thursday, the Court of Appeal declined to keep his name suppressed past Friday when it dismissed his appeals against his conviction and sentence. Kempson then applied for leave from the Supreme Court to appeal that suppression decision and keep his name secret.  However, New Zealand's top court today decided it won't hear that appeal, meaning Newshub can now, after more than two years, name the man who murdered Millane.  Kempson's trial last year made headlines both in New Zeala...

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...

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 be...

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 kn...

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. 10 10 10 Grace Millane was last seen alive the day before her 22nd birthday in December 2018 in Auckland, New Zealand 10 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...