Grace Millane: Accused murder ‘eroticised’ her death, prosecutors

Prosecutors say the man accused of murdering British backpacker Grace Millane eroticised her death

Ms Millane, 21, died in a hotel room in Auckland, New Zealand, before being buried in Woodland outside the city.

In a closing speech, prosecutor Brian Dickey said the defendant had sexualised the killing by taking intimate photos of her dead body before viewing pornography online.

His defence claims the death was an accident during consensual sex.

Ms Millane, from Wickford, Essex, died on the night before her 22nd birthday in December last year.

The defence has told Auckland high court her death was not murder, but the result of choking during sex which went wrong.