Murderer Liam Reid's sentence reduced

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SENTENCE REDUCED: Liam Reid was convicted of the rape and murder of Christchurch woman Emma Agnew and the rape, attempted murder, and robbery of a 21-year-old student in Dunedin.

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The man who raped and murdered deaf Christchurch woman Emma Agnew and then raped and attempted to kill a Dunedin woman just days later has had his sentence reduced on appeal.

Liam James Reid was convicted last year and sentenced to preventive detention with a minimum non-parole period of 26 years.

An appeal against conviction was denied today but an appeal against sentence was partly successful.

His non-parole period was reduced to 23 years.

Reid also appealed his preventive detention sentence but the Court of Appeal confirmed affirmed the decision to keep him in prison until satisfied he was no longer a threat to the public.

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