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The killer of a Korean backpacker is appealing against his 21-year non-parole imprisonment term.
White supremacist Hayden Brent McKenzie, 31, convicted of killing Jae Hyeon Kim in 2003, near Westport , was sentenced to life imprisonment in the High Court at Wellington last month after earlier admitting to murdering the Korean.
It was his second life sentence, as he had already been convicted for his part in the murder of James John (Janis) Bambrough, a homosexual who was killed in 1999 at Westport, the Nelson Mail reported.
McKenzie had served four years of that sentence when the 21-year non-parole sentence for the murder of Mr Kim was added.
McKenzie was associated with a white supremacist group at the time of both killings.
- NZPA
