16 Mar 2022
MASON v POLICE [2022] NZHC 475
- Citation
- [2022] NZHC 475
- Court
- High Court
The High Court dismissed the appeal: the starting point and uplifts for the family violence offending were within the available range given multiple sustained strangulations and aggravated additional violence; a 15% global discount for personal factors was open to the sentencing Judge and not insufficient; the Judge's failure to apply discounts to the minor driving and prison assault sentences was an error but did not render the overall sentence manifestly excessive; and no totality reduction was required because the aggregate sentence was not wholly out of proportion to the gravity of the ov…