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<p>A man has been convicted in the death of 21-year-old British backpacker Grace Millane &mdash; but his name is remaining private, all while Grace&#39;s sex preferences and dating past have been made public as part of the trial.</p><p>Many feel that this amounts to victim-blaming of the highest order.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Those bringing up Grace Millane&#39;s sex life are reinforcing the fact that women will always be at fault, even for their own death. The poor girl was murdered and the news is filled with graphic discussions of what she liked in bed? Are you fucking kidding?</p>&mdash; 🍒 Kayla - TOP 0.6% (@MissRedHeadOF) <a href="https://twitter.com/MissRedHeadOF/status/1196771437832540160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Meanwhile, the killer &mdash; even though he was convicted this morning &mdash; is enjoying full privacy thanks to New Zealand law, as that&#39;s where the murder took place.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">It’s so disgusting (yet predictable) that Grace Millane’s entire sex life has been broadcasted to the world but her killer has ALL PERSONAL INFO protected including his name. He can buy a suitcase for her body, bury it and bleach his flat yet her death is blamed on BDSM?</p>&mdash; lydia 🍂 (@lydblogs) <a href="https://twitter.com/lydblogs/status/1197263353770631170?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 20, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>If the man, who&#39;s 27, was accused of murder in the US or the UK, his name would have been made public long ago. But this isn&#39;t the case in New Zealand where the trial took place. It all comes down to New Zealand&#39;s laws, <a href="https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a29887214/grace-millane-murderer-not-named">according to Cosmopolitan UK</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>New Zealand, however, has strict name suppression laws, which date back to the 1920s. These laws were originally intended to protect first-time young offenders to spare them from public shame so they could go on to get to jobs after they had fulfilled their punishment. [...]</p> <p>More recently, there&rsquo;s been a change in favour of transparency and open justice, but in high profile cases such as this one, New Zealand criminal courts still prefer anonymity for defendants to ensure they get a fair trial.</p> ​​​​​​</blockquote><p>It&#39;s possible the man&#39;s name could be made public when he&#39;s sentenced in February 2020, <a href="https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a29887214/grace-millane-murderer-not-named/">Cosmo UK adds</a>, but it&#39;s up to the judge.</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Grace met the murderer the night before her 22nd birthday. Her body was later found buried in a suitcase in a shallow grave.</p><p>In the trial, the man&#39;s lawyers tried to blame Grace&#39;s death on her preference for rough sex. They implied that she died because of a &quot;sex game gone wrong.&quot; But they couldn&#39;t hide the fact that her killer purchased a suitcase, put her body in it, and buried her in a shallow grave. He also went on a date with another woman the next night &mdash; which he&#39;d organized while Grace&#39;s body lay next to him, <a href="https://www.insider.com/grace-millane-new-zealand-suspect-arranged-new-tinder-date-2019-11">he told police</a>. And <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/13/grace-millane-trial-jury-shown-cctv-of-accused-transporting-suitcase-with-body-inside">he got caught lying to law enforcement</a> about several details, thanks to CCTV footage.</p><p>During the trial, one woman<a href="https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a25472375/grace-millane-murderer-date-another-woman/"> even testified</a> that she&#39;d been scared for her safety during a sexual encounter with the man:</p><blockquote> <p>&quot;He had grabbed my forearms and put all the pressure on my arms so I couldn&rsquo;t breathe and I couldn&rsquo;t move my arms. I started kicking, trying to indicate I couldn&rsquo;t breathe. I was kicking violently. He would have felt me fighting,&quot; the woman told the court.</p> <p>Unable to free herself, the witness shared with the jury how she believed she was going to die. &#39;This can&rsquo;t be the way I die&#39;, she told the court she had thought during the scary incident.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Despite all this &mdash; the man&#39;s violent history and the fact that he was caught lying in court &mdash; the court has decided he deserves privacy, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-50512163">the BBC reports</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Justice Simon Moore ordered that the suppression order which prevents naming the defendant would remain in place indefinitely until lifted by the court.</p> </blockquote><p>So instead of the man&#39;s name and face being publicized while he awaits sentencing, Grace herself is being smeared.</p><p>The New Zealand Herald published a story with the headline, &quot;The girl behind the headlines: boyfriends and hangovers.&quot;</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">That’s some headline the <a href="https://twitter.com/nzherald?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nzherald</a> has there. 😑 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GraceMillane?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GraceMillane</a> <a href="https://t.co/qO1dPgEQP2">pic.twitter.com/qO1dPgEQP2</a></p>&mdash; Angela Cuming (@AngelaCuming) <a href="https://twitter.com/AngelaCuming/status/1197749898952822785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 22, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>The Independent saw fit to dedicate an entire story to Grace&#39;s alleged &quot;BDSM fetishes.&quot;</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I have seen Grace&#39;s death be attributed to: the fact she was backpacking, the fact she was drinking, the fact she was on Tinder, what she liked to do during sex, her being &quot;naïve&quot; (she was 21!), and more. As though her own murder is, somehow, her fault.<a href="https://t.co/6IBwlATdil">https://t.co/6IBwlATdil</a></p>&mdash; Jenny Hollander (@_JennyHollander) <a href="https://twitter.com/_JennyHollander/status/1197558627407745027?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 21, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Many are pointing out that if someone enjoys rough sex, this does not mean they&#39;ve given consent to be murdered.</p><oembed>https://twitter.com/amyalexia/status/1197241655696510976</oembed><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>And no one&#39;s preferences give someone else license to murder them.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">enjoying sex didn’t kill her. Being a member of BDSM sites didn’t kill her. Liking rough or kinky sex didn’t kill her. Solo travelling didn’t kill her. Enjoying life as a young, single woman didn’t kill her. Stop blaming women and girls for their murders. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GraceMillane?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GraceMillane</a> <a href="https://t.co/VgRggcz8oc">https://t.co/VgRggcz8oc</a></p>&mdash; fuck the green party (@sophmartyn) <a href="https://twitter.com/sophmartyn/status/1197278727186657285?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 20, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>People are pointing out the absurdity of her murderer being granted anonymity while Grace&#39;s personal life is dragged through the mud.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">What’s so infuriating is that her MURDERER is allowed more anonymity and privacy than Grace currently. His identity is hidden but her sexual preferences are being revealed in court, to the public and to her family. Why in fucks name is he being shown more respect?? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GraceMillane?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GraceMillane</a></p>&mdash; victoria moss (@vickomoss) <a href="https://twitter.com/vickomoss/status/1196902840435970049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Some are suggesting it&#39;s a blind spot in New Zealand law.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">If that A**wipe&#39;s name can be suppressed in future cases can we please suppress all defence evidence that basically slut-shames murder victims? Nobody consents to being choked to death. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GraceMillane?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GraceMillane</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/JusticeForGrace?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#JusticeForGrace</a></p>&mdash; Nick Brown (@TheNickCRBrown) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheNickCRBrown/status/1197747240493707266?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 22, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>But the posthumous slut-shaming of female murder victims is a problem that exists in pretty much every society.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I’m happy that there is some sort of justice for <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GraceMillane?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GraceMillane</a> but rough sex defence and salacious reporting were a final insult to her and her family. This must change. And that means that women’s lives need to be valued equally. The change that needs to happen is LAYERS deep.</p>&mdash; Kate (@KateOfHysteria) <a href="https://twitter.com/KateOfHysteria/status/1197783917367050240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 22, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

People are angry as Grace Millane's sex preferences made public while murderer's name is private.

A man has been convicted in the death of 21-year-old British backpacker Grace Millane &mdash; but his name is remaining private, all while Grace&#39;s sex preferences and dating past have been made public as part of the trial.Many feel that this amounts to victim-blaming of the highest order.Those bringing up Grace Millane&#39;s sex life are reinforcing the fact that women will always be at fault, even for their own death. The poor girl was murdered and the news is filled with graphic discussions of what she liked in bed? Are you fucking kidding?&mdash; 🍒 Kayla - TOP 0.6% (@MissRedHeadOF) November 19, 2019 Meanwhile, the killer &mdash; even though he was convicted this morning &mdash; is enjoying full privacy thanks to New Zealand law, as that&#39;s where the murder took place.It’s so disgusting (yet predictable) that Grace Millane’s entire sex life has been broadcasted to the world but her killer has ALL PERSONAL INFO protected including his name. He can buy a suitcase for her body, bury it and bleach his flat yet her death is blamed on BDSM?&mdash; lydia 🍂 (@lydblogs) November 20, 2019 If the man, who&#39;s 27, was accused of murder in the US or the UK, his name would have been made public long ago. But this isn&#39;t the case in New Zealand where the trial took place. It all comes down to New Zealand&#39;s laws, according to Cosmopolitan UK: New Zealand, however, has strict name suppression laws, which date back to the 1920s. These laws were originally intended to protect first-time young offenders to spare them from public shame so they could go on to get to jobs after they had fulfilled their punishment. [...] More recently, there&rsquo;s been a change in favour of transparency and open justice, but in high profile cases such as this one, New Zealand criminal courts still prefer anonymity for defendants to ensure they get a fair trial. ​​​​​​It&#39;s possible the man&#39;s name could be made public when he&#39;s sentenced in February 2020, Cosmo UK adds, but it&#39;s up to the judge.Grace met the murderer the night before her 22nd birthday. Her body was later found buried in a suitcase in a shallow grave.In the trial, the man&#39;s lawyers tried to blame Grace&#39;s death on her preference for rough sex. They implied that she died because of a &quot;sex game gone wrong.&quot; But they couldn&#39;t hide the fact that her killer purchased a suitcase, put her body in it, and buried her in a shallow grave. He also went on a date with another woman the next night &mdash; which he&#39;d organized while Grace&#39;s body lay next to him, he told police. And he got caught lying to law enforcement about several details, thanks to CCTV footage.During the trial, one woman even testified that she&#39;d been scared for her safety during a sexual encounter with the man: &quot;He had grabbed my forearms and put all the pressure on my arms so I couldn&rsquo;t breathe and I couldn&rsquo;t move my arms. I started kicking, trying to indicate I couldn&rsquo;t breathe. I was kicking violently. He would have felt me fighting,&quot; the woman told the court. Unable to free herself, the witness shared with the jury how she believed she was going to die. &#39;This can&rsquo;t be the way I die&#39;, she told the court she had thought during the scary incident. Despite all this &mdash; the man&#39;s violent history and the fact that he was caught lying in court &mdash; the court has decided he deserves privacy, the BBC reports: Justice Simon Moore ordered that the suppression order which prevents naming the defendant would remain in place indefinitely until lifted by the court. So instead of the man&#39;s name and face being publicized while he awaits sentencing, Grace herself is being smeared.The New Zealand Herald published a story with the headline, &quot;The girl behind the headlines: boyfriends and hangovers.&quot;That’s some headline the @nzherald has there. 😑 #GraceMillane pic.twitter.com/qO1dPgEQP2&mdash; Angela Cuming (@AngelaCuming) November 22, 2019 The Independent saw fit to dedicate an entire story to Grace&#39;s alleged &quot;BDSM fetishes.&quot;I have seen Grace&#39;s death be attributed to: the fact she was backpacking, the fact she was drinking, the fact she was on Tinder, what she liked to do during sex, her being &quot;naïve&quot; (she was 21!), and more. As though her own murder is, somehow, her fault.https://t.co/6IBwlATdil&mdash; Jenny Hollander (@_JennyHollander) November 21, 2019 Many are pointing out that if someone enjoys rough sex, this does not mean they&#39;ve given consent to be murdered.https://twitter.com/amyalexia/status/1197241655696510976And no one&#39;s preferences give someone else license to murder them.enjoying sex didn’t kill her. Being a member of BDSM sites didn’t kill her. Liking rough or kinky sex didn’t kill her. Solo travelling didn’t kill her. Enjoying life as a young, single woman didn’t kill her. Stop blaming women and girls for their murders. #GraceMillane https://t.co/VgRggcz8oc&mdash; fuck the green party (@sophmartyn) November 20, 2019 People are pointing out the absurdity of her murderer being granted anonymity while Grace&#39;s personal life is dragged through the mud.What’s so infuriating is that her MURDERER is allowed more anonymity and privacy than Grace currently. His identity is hidden but her sexual preferences are being revealed in court, to the public and to her family. Why in fucks name is he being shown more respect?? #GraceMillane&mdash; victoria moss (@vickomoss) November 19, 2019 Some are suggesting it&#39;s a blind spot in New Zealand law.If that A**wipe&#39;s name can be suppressed in future cases can we please suppress all defence evidence that basically slut-shames murder victims? Nobody consents to being choked to death. #GraceMillane #JusticeForGrace&mdash; Nick Brown (@TheNickCRBrown) November 22, 2019 But the posthumous slut-shaming of female murder victims is a problem that exists in pretty much every society.I’m happy that there is some sort of justice for #GraceMillane but rough sex defence and salacious reporting were a final insult to her and her family. This must change. And that means that women’s lives need to be valued equally. The change that needs to happen is LAYERS deep.&mdash; Kate (@KateOfHysteria) November 22, 2019 

A man has been convicted in the death of 21-year-old British backpacker Grace Millane &mdash; but his name is remaining private, all while Grace&#39;s sex preferences and dating past have been made public as part of the trial.  Many feel...