8 Jul 2016
R v HENSON [2016] NZHC 1543
- Citation
- [2016] NZHC 1543
- Court
- High Court
Preventive detention was not imposed because prior similar offending was remote (24 years) and there had been no intervening repeat offending and the Crown acknowledged difficulty; instead a lengthy determinate sentence was imposed to protect the community and denounce the conduct given the high culpability (premeditation, young vulnerable victim, forcible abduction, over two hour detention, and intrusive sexual offending). The court set a provisional starting point of 10.5 years for the abduction charge, uplifted six months for prior similar convictions, applied totality, reduced for an earl…