19 Dec 2017
GRANT v R [2017] NZCA 614
- Citation
- [2017] NZCA 614
- Court
- Court of Appeal
The Court admitted the independent psychological report as fresh evidence and held that, given the appellant's youth and the developmental evidence about brain maturation plus the availability of an ESO, a finite determinate sentence with targeted intervention could provide adequate protection; accordingly preventive detention was not justified and was quashed, replaced by a 12-year determinate sentence cumulative on the existing term with a six-year minimum on the lead disfiguring offence.