Karen Aim's family will leave for Scotland today confident that justice has been done for their daughter's murder.
They came to New Zealand in January from their home in the remote Orkney Islands vowing to sit through each day of the lengthy trial of her killer, Jahche Broughton. But he changed his plea to guilty last month.
There were emotional scenes as Mr Aim read a victim impact statement in court.
"I would have been so proud to have taken Karen down the aisle in her wedding dress, instead I took Karen down the aisle in a coffin," he said.
"Jahche denied her the possibility of becoming a mother or a granny.