Grace Millane’s murderer loses appeal against conviction and sentence

British backpacker Grace Millane’s murderer has lost an appeal against his conviction and prison sentence, a New Zealand court said (Lucie Blackman Trust/PA)

The man who murdered a British backpacker he met on a dating app and dumped her body in a forested area in New Zealand has lost an appeal against his conviction and prison sentence, a court said.

The 28-year-old man who strangled Grace Millane appealed to the New Zealand Court of Appeal in August but it found against him on Friday, according to court documents seen by the PA news agency.