10 Jun 2021
WICKLIFFE v THE NEW ZEALAND POLICE [2021] NZHC 1362
- Citation
- [2021] NZHC 1362
- Court
- High Court
The late tendered s27 cultural report, addressing factors required by s8(1)(i), warranted additional discounts for personal factors: 10% for alcohol dependence causally linked to childhood and 5% for rehabilitative progress; those discounts must be applied separately to the wounding (second‑strike) component and the non‑violent ESO/reporting component given the split sentencing to avoid non‑parole constraints, resulting in substitution of the wounding sentence to four years and nine months to be served without parole and reduction of the ESO/reporting sentence to five months cumulative.