24 Nov 2023
R v HART [2023] NZHC 3364
- Citation
- [2023] NZHC 3364
- Court
- High Court
Given the defendant's participation in a planned assault that led to fatal multiple blunt-force injuries, his active role in destroying the scene and staging false evidence, and the prolonged maintenance of lies thereafter, the Court fixed a starting point of nine years for manslaughter, applied an uplift of five and a half years for attempting to pervert the course of justice to reach an adjusted starting point of 13.5 years, allowed total discounts of 16% (6% for clean record, 5% for mental health/army discharge effects, 5% for time on EM bail) resulting in an end sentence of 11 years and f…