Murdered Wellington woman Mei Fan's boyfriend has no plans to stick around in New Zealand to watch her killer's court appeal.
Tani Hoyhtya has finished his Rotorua-based job working for a forestry company and is organising his affairs so he can leave the country, perhaps returning home to his native Finland.
The two met in China in 2011 when Ms Fan's killer, Michael Preston, had returned to New Zealand after also living there.
Ms Fan followed, to be closer to their children. But after a tempestuous couple of years she was killed by Preston in her home in the eastern Wellington suburb of Miramar in November 2013.
Mr Hoyhtya was living in Vietnam then, but was concerned when he didn't hear from Ms Fan, so raised the alarm.