The man accused of murdering Grace Millane bought cleaning products, hired a rental car and met a woman for a drink at a bar as the British backpacker lay dead in his apartment.
CCTV footage of the defendant in the Grace Millane murder trial with a rug doctor he hired. Photo: Supplied
The 27-year-old denies murdering Ms Millane after they met for a Tinder date on the eve of her 22nd birthday in Auckland's CBD last December.
He initially told police he parted ways with her after their date but it's now accepted the young woman died in his apartment and he later buried her in the Waitakere Ranges.
This morning the jury watched a CCTV compilation of the accused's movements the day after Ms Millane died.
In the first clip, the man leaves the CityLife apartment complex to buy a suitcase at The Warehouse on Elliott St around 8am.
He returns to CityLife before leaving again to buy Janola, gloves, wipes and a packet of gum with cash at the Countdown supermarket on Victoria St.
The man then takes the items back to his apartment and then catches a taxi to a car hire company where he rents a vehicle.
He returns to CityLife again and leaves the complex for one hour and then again at 3pm where he goes to a bar in Ponsonby.
The accused is filmed drinking outside the bar with a woman and then returning to CityLife around 6pm.
An hour later he drives the rental car to Countdown on Quay St where he hires Rug Doctor, a carpet cleaning machine.
Around 9.30pm the man is seen wheeling a baggage trolley up to his room and then wheeling it into the lift with two suitcases on it. The court has heard Ms Millane's body was in one.
Grace Millane Photo: Supplied
The young woman's parents, Gillian and David Millane, both cried in court as they watched the footage of him putting the suitcases into the rental car he then parked in a nearby carpark.
The public gallery was standing room only during the CCTV evidence, as it has been for most of the trial.
He then went back to the supermarket and bought flavoured water, gloves and carpet stain remover.
At 6am the following morning he drives the rental car to an ITM west of Auckland where he buys a red shovel with cash.
He is filmed returning to a carpark near CityLife and walking into the complex with a sports bag at 9.30am.
The accused later drops a sports bag at a nearby drycleaners and buys another suitcase from The Warehouse in St Lukes.
He then cleans his car at a nearby self service car wash and fills the vehicle up with petrol.
At 5pm he's filmed putting items in a bin in Albert Park before slowly walking away.
The Crown is nearing the end of its Crown witness list, which has included forensic scientists, police officers and women who had also gone on Tinder dates with the accused.
The trial before Justice Moore and a jury of seven women and five men is set down for the month.
