6 Sept 2017
R v MCGREGOR [2017] NZHC 2150
- Citation
- [2017] NZHC 2150
- Court
- High Court
Preventive detention was considered but rejected because the offender's youth and potential for rehabilitation outweighed factors favouring preventive detention; appropriate finite sentencing was a nine year starting point for the sexual violation counts uplifted by 12 months for possession of objectionable images, reduced for totality, youth (10%) and guilty plea (approximately 25%), producing a final concurrent sentence of six years four months' imprisonment with a minimum period of imprisonment of three years nine months; ancillary sentences for indecent assault and objectionable publicati…