NZ man gets life in South Korean backpacker's death
(12-05 20:15)
A New Zealand court sent a man who confessed to the 2003 killing of a South Korean backpacker to prison for at least 25 years and said the assailant was motivated by neo-Nazi beliefs.
The High Court sentenced Hayden Brent McKenzie to life for the murder of Kim Jae Hyeon, 25. A life sentence is normally 10 years in New Zealand, but Justice Simon France imposed a non-parole period of 25 years.
It was the second life sentence for McKenzie, 31, who was convicted in 2004 for his part in the 1999 murder of a gay man.
Police and prosecutors have not publicly given a motive for Kim's slaying, but France said at the sentencing hearing that McKenzie had been associated with a white supremacist group at the time of both killings.
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