12 May 2020
R v HAYDEN [2020] NZHC 966
- Citation
- [2020] NZHC 966
- Court
- High Court
Defendant was properly convicted as a party to manslaughter because his sustained encouragement, supply of alcohol, and active obstruction of a police intervention materially contributed to and facilitated the driver's prolonged, intoxicated, high-speed, evasive and ultimately fatal driving; his culpability, while less than the driver, was broadly comparable to precedent (R v Cossey) and warranted a starting point of 4.5 years' imprisonment, reduced by specified percentage discounts for remorse, personal mitigation, hardship and a full guilty-plea discount to an effective sentence of two year…