24 Aug 2017
R v COOK & SUAREZ-JUAREZ [2017] NZHC 2034
- Citation
- [2017] NZHC 2034
- Court
- High Court
Given the exceptional seriousness (35 kg cocaine), commercial organisation, sophistication and the defendants' roles as New Zealand organisers, the appropriate starting points were 20 years for Suarez and 19 years for Cook; modest personal discounts applied (Cook one year for good character; both three months for being foreign nationals serving long sentences away from family), producing final effective custodial terms of Suarez 19 years 9 months (MPI 9 years 10 months) and Cook 17 years 9 months (MPI 8 years 10 months); related attempted supply sentences of six years to be served concurrentl…