13 Nov 2020
R v LAKE [2020] NZHC 3013
- Citation
- [2020] NZHC 3013
- Court
- High Court
Starting point fixed at eight years' imprisonment (upper band two of Taueki) for multiple forceful blows and stomps to the head causing serious injury; apply 10% uplift for prior similar violent offending and 20% mitigation for causal abusive childhood and cultural factors plus a 15% guilty plea discount yielding a net 25% reduction from the starting point to a finite term of six years, but preventive detention is necessary because the offender is likely to commit further qualifying violent offences absent successful targeted rehabilitation; therefore impose preventive detention with a minimu…