1 Dec 2017
BUTLER v POLICE [2017] NZHC 2972
- Citation
- [2017] NZHC 2972
- Court
- High Court
The appeal was dismissed and the custodial sentence upheld because the offending involved significant aggravating features—prior serious sexual offending against the victim, re-victimisation long after the original offending, and a history of home detention with limited deterrent effect—such that denunciation and a term of imprisonment were justified notwithstanding the private nature of the message and distinctions from Brittin.