The 30-year-old woman said she and the man arranged to meet up again on Tuesday this week, but they had not decided on the location. Loading Replay Replay video Play video Play video She last heard from him on Thursday morning and wondered why he hadn't been in touch. Police told her on Monday what had happened. "I'm quite upset," the woman said. "Obviously angels were watching over me."

She said she thought she had been talking to a "decent guy". He'd talked about her moving to Australia with him if things worked out. "At the time it was just legitimately all normal. The only weird thing I thought about him was that he asked me for feet photos and of me with my high heels on." She was "very sorry" to hear about what had happened to Millane and wanted to offer her condolences to the backpacker's family and friends. Millane, an advertising graduate and artist from Essex, arrived in New Zealand on November 20, after spending six weeks in South America. It was her first time travelling alone. Police have declined to confirm claims the pair met through dating app and have refused to say how she died.

"I am are aware that there is a great deal of public speculation about what happened to Grace," detective Inspector Scott Beard said in a statement on Tuesday. "It is with great reluctance that I will only confirm the following, and say that Grace's body was intact when it was recovered." Her suspected killer allegedly posted a compliment on her social media profile minutes before she was last seen, it emerged on Monday. As the suspect came before a judge at Auckland's District Court, a comment he allegedly posted on her Facebook profile surfaced. Uploaded at 9.29pm on the night she vanished, it read: "Beautiful very radiant". A man has appeared in a New Zealand court charged with the murder of British tourist Grace Millane. Credit:Facebook

His alleged comment was still visible on her Facebook page - since turned into a memorial site - until Monday afternoon, when it was removed. On Monday, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern became emotional as she apologised to Millane's family on behalf of New Zealanders for what had happened. Loading "Your daughter should have been safe here and she wasn't and I'm sorry for that," she told media. "The overwhelming sense I get is that this is something we feel immense heartbreak for the family and the sense of collective shame. We pride ourselves on being a place where people are welcome, where they are safe and this hasn't happened. I feel a sense that New Zealanders are carrying this quite personally."

The man appeared at Auckland District Court on Monday charged with Millane's murder. He was granted interim name suppression and was remanded in custody until his next court appearance in January. The man's grandfather on Monday told Stuff he was struggling to comes to terms with what his grandson had been accused of. The accused was a "nice kid" but in recent years he "sort of fell out with everybody" and became estranged from his family, his grandfather said. A female relative of the accused said the man had spent time living in Australia, where his mother lived.

He returned home in about 2016 and visited relatives in the Wellington region, before moving to Auckland. The woman believed the man had recently returned to Sydney. She was unaware he was back in the country. The accused's father said he had not spoken to his son in two years. Asked why, he replied: "A difference in opinion on life." Police on Monday continued to appeal for sightings of a red 2016 Toyota Corolla hatchback that was rented for 24 hours before it was returned by the accused on December 3. It was then rented out to another party, who drove the car to Taupō where it was identified and seized by police on Saturday.