25 Mar 2021
R v KIRIHI BOB PHILLIPS [2021] NZHC 610
- Citation
- [2021] NZHC 610
- Court
- High Court
The court held s86D required imposition of the statutory maximum sentence of seven years for the Stage 3 indecent assault conviction but, exercising the limited discretion under s86D(3), found it would be manifestly unjust to require the defendant to serve the whole sentence without parole given the nature and lower-end gravity of the offending, the similarity of the Stage 1 offending, time already served and significant rehabilitative needs; the court therefore imposed seven years imprisonment but declined to order no-parole and allowed parole eligibility after one-third (two years four mont…