A man who admitted murdering a Korean student on the West Coast is beginning his second life sentence for murder.
It has been revealed that Hayden Brent McKenzie, 31, was already serving a life sentence for the murder of West Coast transsexual James Bambrough in 1999.
McKenzie's latest victim, Jae Hyeon Kim, disappeared while hitchhiking near Westport in the South Island in 2003.
His remains were not discovered until October this year when McKenzie led police to the area where Mr Kim had been buried.
At the High Court in Wellington on Friday, Justice Simon France jailed McKenzie for a minimum non-parole period of 21 years for Mr Kim's murder.
During sentencing, Justice France said McKenzie's white supremacist's beliefs fuelled the killings.
He drew parallels between McKenzie and another convicted double murderer, Graeme Burton.
The judge said that while many people have killed more than one person in a single event, to commit two murders at different times is uncommon and Burton is the most high-profile recent example for that.
Mr Kim's mother broke down in tears as she read a victim impact report in which she spoke of the distress the loss of her son had caused the family.
She referred to McKenzie as a heartless and cruel man and asked why he killed her son who was an innocent student with no money.
