5 Aug 2021
R v STEVENS [2021] NZHC 2026
- Citation
- [2021] NZHC 2026
- Court
- High Court
The Court concluded preventive detention was necessary to protect the community because the offender has a long pattern of qualifying sexual offending, poses a very high risk of reoffending against children, and assessments indicated specialised intervention was required and unlikely to be achieved by a finite sentence alone; the mandatory third-strike requirement to impose 10 years without parole was manifestly unjust in the offender's circumstances, so the court imposed preventive detention with a minimum period of imprisonment of seven years and concurrent seven-year imprisonment for the s…