21 Nov 2017
NGAWHIKA V R [2017] NZCA 535
- Citation
- [2017] NZCA 535
- Court
- Court of Appeal
The appeal is dismissed: the missing banking bag did not render the conviction unsafe because independent evidence linked it to the victim; the Judge's initial misstatement was corrected and caused no real risk of prejudice; the EFTPOS evidence, although wrongly admitted, was harmless in the context of compelling other evidence; verdicts were explainable on a charge-by-charge basis; the sentence of two years and four months' imprisonment was within range and not manifestly excessive.