5 Feb 2019
R v HANARA (SENTENCING NOTES) [2019] NZHC 78
- Citation
- [2019] NZHC 78
- Court
- High Court
The presumption in favour of life imprisonment was not displaced: the murder was brutal and premeditated (stabbing a retreating victim multiple times and kicking him as he bled to death) and the offender's youth and documented cognitive impairments did not have the necessary causal connection or magnitude to render life imprisonment manifestly unjust; however those mitigating factors justified setting the statutory minimum MPI at the 10‑year floor; concurrent short term imposed for burglary.