25 Jun 2021
TREGOWETH v R [2021] NZCA 311
- Citation
- [2021] NZCA 311
- Court
- Court of Appeal
It was wrong in principle to impose an uplift for methamphetamine found on the appellant in custody where the Crown offered no evidence and it was accepted he had not intended to smuggle it into prison; the three month uplift produced a manifestly unjust sentence and was therefore quashed, with the substituted sentence reflecting the agreed starting point less the same mitigations.