The man who murdered 17-year-old Te Awhiahua Toko has been sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum period of 16 years.
In April this year Paul Skipper stabbed the teenager three times in the neck with a butcher's boning knife in Lower Hutt.
She later died in hospital. Skipper pleaded guilty to murdering her.
Justice Karen Clark handed down Skipper's sentence at the High Court at Wellington this
morning.
She said Toko was a vulnerable person Skipper was meant to be taking responsibility for, instead he created an environment of fear.