3 Aug 2017
KERR v NEW ZEALAND POLICE [2017] NZHC 1830
- Citation
- [2017] NZHC 1830
- Court
- High Court
The sentencing Judge did not err: given the seriousness of the blackmail (ongoing threats including a threatened false rape allegation), the accompanying wilful damage and intimidation, the appellant's prior dishonesty convictions and breaches of community sentences and the Probation Service's assessment that the proposed home detention address and occupants were unsuitable, imprisonment was the least restrictive appropriate sentence; R v Rawiri was distinguishable and declining a further adjournment was not unlawful.