Christie Marceau kidnapper gets three years

Akshay Anand Chand. Photo / Paul Estcourt

The man who killed Auckland teenager Christie Marceau has been sentenced this morning for kidnapping her two months before she died.

Akshay Chand, 19, was found not guilty by reason of insanity of murdering Christie by reason of insanity in the High Court at Auckland yesterday.

He had earlier admitted kidnapping Christie and putting her through a terrifying knifepoint ordeal last September.

Justice Helen Winkelmann sentenced Chand to three years on those charges.

She took into account Chand's age, mental health and previous "good character". But she also spoke of the horror he put Christie and her family throughout the ordeal.

He will serve that time at the Mason Clinic where he is being detained indefinitely as a special patient as a result of stabbing Christie to death.

Justice Winkelmann also gave Chand a warning under the three strikes legislation.

Psychiatric experts deemed him insane when he killed Christie and said he suffered from a schizophrenic mental illness.

A voice in his head "compelled" him to stab the teen.