Grace Millane: Killer tried to blame her for her own death

Grace, 21, from Wickford was strangled to death in Auckland, New Zealand, in December 2018.

Jesse Kempson, 28, who is serving a 17-year minimum sentence for Grace's death, attempted to blame Grace for her death in footage released as part of a new documentary into her murder.

The documentary. Credit: Discovery

In scenes filmed for brand-new true crime documentary The Murder Of Grace Millane: A Faking It Special, available on discovery+, linguistic expert Dawn Archer highlights a staggering 21 examples where Kempson tries to shift the blame off of himself and onto Grace.

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• Dawn said: "I'm calling it the blame shifting strategy, and I've found 21 examples.

"'And then she told me to hold her throat.'

"Now that is how she died, and we are told here that it was her idea.

"These are examples of a strategy rather than an accidental thing, because it's happening 21 times.

"What he's wanting the police officer to believe is that this was rough sex gone wrong and the person who initiated the sex to become as rough as it was, was Grace and not Jesse Kempson.

"It makes him less culpable."

During the police investigation, CCTV showed how Kempson had moving Grace's body in a suitcase and burying her.;