Two men who burned a 21-year-old supermarket worker to death over his life savings have failed to have their convictions overturned.
Both also unsuccessfully appealed against their sentence of life imprisonment of 17 years.
Shivneel Kumar, 20, and Bryne Permal, 22, were sentenced in the High Court at Auckland in May last year over the death of Shalvin Prasad, whose smouldering body was found on a rural South Auckland road on the morning of January 31, 2013.
The Crown said during the trial, Prasad was assaulted at an unknown location and bundled into the boot of Permal's mother's car, driven by Kumar.
The defendants then bought 15 litres of petrol, using the stolen money, before driving to McRobbie Rd in Kingseat, where they doused the victim in petrol and set him alight.