The man who killed North Shore teenager Christie Marceau has been jailed for three years for kidnapping her and threatening to knife her two months before her death.
Akshay Anand Chand, 19, was found not guilty yesterday on a charge of murdering Ms Marceau on November 7 last year by way of insanity.
But he admitted charges of kidnap, threatening to cause grievous bodily harm and assault with intent to rape her.
He will serve the sentence as a special patient in a secure mental health hospital, where he was detained indefinitely yesterday after the insanity finding on the murder charge.
The charges were laid after Chand lured Ms Marceau to his home with the intent to rape her, threatened her with a knife and forced her to strip to her underwear.
Chand talked to her for about 35 minutes about his problems before releasing her.
He admitted the charges in September after psychologists found that at the time of the kidnap, he could not definitely meet the legal insanity threshold at that time.
In Auckland High Court on Thursday, Justice Helen Winkelmann said the actions had a huge impact on Ms Marceau and her parents, who still fear for their safety despite having moved to Australia.
"You intended to terrify Christie and you did," she said.
She said a starting point of five years was appropriate but gave him a discount of two years for his lack of convictions, his mental illness and his guilty plea.
Chand's insanity plea for the murder charge was accepted because by the time he killed her, he was definitely mentally ill and didn't know what he was doing was morally wrong.
NZN