Grace Millane killer Jesse Kempson raped another British tourist months earlier

Grace Millane, left, and her killer Jesse Kempson

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Backpacker Grace Millane’s killer has been convicted of sex attacks on two other women including the rape of another British tourist, it can be revealed.

Jesse Kempson can now be named in New Zealand after a court order banning his identification was lifted on Tuesday, more than two years after her death.

He was jailed for a minimum of 17 years in February for murdering Ms Millane in his hotel room in Auckland, New Zealand, in December 2018.

Last Friday the 28-year-old’s appeal against his conviction and sentence for the murder of Ms Millane, from Wickford Essex, was dismissed.

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It has now been revealed that he was convicted of sex attacks on two more women.

Kempson was in October convicted of eight charges relating to various attacks, including using a knife, against a woman between November 2016 and April 2017.

And in November he was by a separate judge convicted of raping another woman on their first and only date in April 2018.

Kempson met both of the women through the dating app Tinder, as he had Ms Millane.

The 11-year jail term for these nine offences will be served after his sentence for Ms Millane's murder.

Now the cases are complete New Zealand’s Court of Appeal has been able to lift an order banning Kempson from being identified.

Kempson strangled Ms Millane to death December 2018 on the night before her 22nd birthday.

They had been for a drink together in Auckland after meeting on the dating app Tinder.

Legal restrictions in New Zealand meant Kempson could not be identified before Tuesday, when the country’s supreme court removed the order that kept his name hidden from reports in the country.

Ms Millane, a Lincoln University graduate from Wickford in Essex, was on a round-the-world trip when she was murdered by Kempson.

Her body was found in a suitcase buried in a forested area on the outskirts of Auckland.

Kempson’s trial heard how after murdering Ms Millane, he took intimate photos of her body and searched for pornography before going on another date.

Ms Millane’s parents were forced to endure a three-week trial in Auckland. Kempson refused to give evidence and instead put her sex life in the spotlight.

Ms Millane’s father David Millane died of cancer in his hometown of Wickford in November.

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