3 Feb 2017
New Zealand Police v PAKI [2017] NZHC 79
- Citation
- [2017] NZHC 79
- Court
- High Court
Preventive detention was declined because, despite a significant historical pattern of serious sexual offending and multiple breaches of supervision orders, the index offence was at the lower end of the scale, the pattern of recent sexual offending was weak, assessors rated risk as moderate to moderate-high, and the combination of age, ill health, existing extended supervision order and prospect of a substantial determinate sentence meant adequate community protection could be achieved by a finite sentence; the appropriate determinate sentence was fixed at 30 months imprisonment after uplift…