20 Jul 2018
MICHAEL DAVID PURU v R [2018] NZHC 1822
- Citation
- [2018] NZHC 1822
- Court
- High Court
The District Court erred by relying on a prior sentence as a baseline without analyzing the earlier offending; re-sentencing was required. Applying appropriate principles the Court set a 7-month starting point for the lead protection-order breach, uplifted 5 months for the related breach and 7 months for extensive prior offending, added a 6-month cumulative term for repeat drink-driving, producing 25 months reduced by 25% for guilty pleas to an effective sentence of 19 months and one week; the appeal was dismissed because the resultant sentence did not render the original manifestly excessive.