26 May 2017
R v STROOBANT [2017] NZHC 1122
- Citation
- [2017] NZHC 1122
- Court
- High Court
The Court imposed life imprisonment for murder with a minimum term of 17 years (starting point 20 years reduced by 2 years for youth/background and 1 year for a guilty plea) and imposed preventive detention with a minimum term of 10 years for the sexual violation because psychiatric and risk assessments established a high likelihood of future qualifying sexual or violent offending and preventive detention was necessary to protect the community and incentivise rehabilitation.