22 Sept 2022
WALKER v NZ POLICE [2022] NZHC 2430
- Citation
- [2022] NZHC 2430
- Court
- High Court
The Court admitted the s27 report as fresh evidence, found a clear nexus between Walker's traumatic background, mental health and drug addiction and his offending, applied a 15% discount for personal mitigation (yielding a net 27% discount including guilty plea), reduced the effective imprisonment to 21 months, and on balance concluded that rehabilitation prospects and recent engagement justified substituting the sentence with 10 months home detention subject to stringent special and post-detention conditions.