The man who has been on trial for the death of Grace Millane has been found guilty of murder. He cannot be named due to a suppression order.
On Friday, a jury came to the unanimous decision that the 27-year-old man murdered the 21-year-old woman after meeting her on a Tinder date.
The New Zealand Herald reports that Grace’s parents were in the courtroom and “embraced” when the guilty verdict was passed down.
The man is due to be sentenced on February 21.
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It had came out in the trial that she young women had memberships on fetish sites and had a special interest in being throttled. I am terrible sorry she has lost her life however Sadomasochism is not something to practice on Tinder. Given the high risk nature of many the activities. When you are dealing with physical torture or especially throttling,
defining boundaries over a period of time to determine your limit is crucial, not random hookups. Get to know someone before hopping in the sack.
Victim shaming, how helpful.
You don’t need to define death as a limit. He strangled her for 3-5 minutes while she was unconscious. It’s not a tragic accident because they didn’t know their limits, he murdered her and he would probably go on to murder other women regardless of any kinks they expressed an interest in. And since tinder have a way for him to be tracked down immediately it was actually the best way she could have met him.
Short of taking security with them every time they have sex, there’s no way women can protect themselves from men determined to murder them. So let’s focus on stopping men from murdering.
You've got to be kidding me. She didn't have an interest in being throttled. It's BDSM and it is very different. Yes, I know all about it from experience and, to be honest, I'm sick of people slut shaming. Yes, that's exactly what you were doing with the line "given the high risk nature of many of the activities," and "get to know someone before hopping in the sack". Disgraceful, victim blaming comments that are not warranted or helpful. And who is to say they didn't agree on limits, safe words, immediate stop actions etc... In fact, we don't even know if his story about rough sex gone wrong is true because Grace isn't here to tell us. It could have been just plain vanilla sex and he decided to kill her. The fact is he strangled her to death. That involves extreme force for a prolonged about of time. She would have been unconscious and clearly not ok. Not to mention what he did afterwards.This was no accident and there was no way Grace could have prevented it. Coincidentally, going on Tinder is no different to meeting a guy at the pub, or the supermarket or while you're walking your dog at the park.
Ugh, gross. Read a bit more about what actually happened to her before commenting.