A New Zealand drug dealer who kept the body of his girlfriend frozen in a bin in his hotel room in the United States for up to a year, has been sentenced to four years in prison.
Stephen Royds, 47, had admitted cocaine offences at a court in Newport Beach, south of Los Angeles.
The body of former stripper Monique Trepp, 33, was discovered by police executing a search warrant at the Fairmont Newport Beach Hotel in March as they investigated on suspicion of dealing cocaine.
It had been preserved in dry ice and was moderately decomposed.
The Los Angeles Times says Royd was not a suspect in her death.
An autopsy showed she died from an overdose of cocaine and alcohol and may have been dead for as long as a year.
Royds has never divulged why he kept her body.
