A second man has been jailed for what a judge called a racially motivated murder of a young Korean man who was hitch hiking on the West Coast.
Shannon Flewellen, 30, was sentenced to life in jail with a minimum non-parole period of 16 years and three months for the murder of Jae Hyeon Kim.
Mr Kim disappeared near Westport in 2003, but his case was treated as that of a missing person for five years.
Two men were charged with killing him after his body was found in a shallow grave in June 2008.
The other, Hayden McKenzie, is already serving a sentence of at least 21 years.
In the High Court in Christchurch on Thursday, Justice Fogarty told Flewellen he had no doubt that the killing was racially motivated.
He said Flewellen's white supremacist views were clear, as the 30-year-old had no regard for Asian people and did not consider them deserving of the same dignity he gave white people.
Neo-Nazism at end - police
Police say Flewellen's jailing should be the end of a neo-Nazi movement on the West Coast.
The officer in charge of the case, Detective Inspector John Winter, says Flewellen is the last of a number of West Coast white supremacists to be jailed for violent crimes.
He says Mr Kim's murder was just months after another murder by neo-Nazis.
NZ still 'relatively safe'
Korea's representative in New Zealand, Key Sun Shin, attended the sentencing on behalf of Mr Kim's family.
He says Koreans still consider New Zealand a relatively safe country, despite the crime.
He says he respects the comments the judge made about the racially motivated crime but he did not think that would affect the relationship between the countries.
