Psychotic man jailed for sex worker murder

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Kaine Van Hemert was jailed on Friday at the High Court in Christchurch for the December 31, 2019, murder of Bella Te Pania. Photo: Pool - Kurt Bayer, NZ Herald

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A man in the middle of a paranoid psychotic episode should not have been left alone on the night he murdered a Christchurch sex worker, a judge said on Friday.

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