19 Dec 2019
NICHOLAS v R [2019] NZHC 3426
- Citation
- [2019] NZHC 3426
- Court
- High Court
The High Court dismissed the appeal, holding the nine years six months’ sentence with a 50% MPI was within the available range: the offending involved high-degree premeditation, extreme and sustained violence, exploitation of a vulnerable victim and serious physical consequences, justifying the starting point and the MPI under s86; available psychological and pre-sentence material negated the necessity of a s27 cultural report and methamphetamine use lacked a demonstrated causal nexus to the offending to warrant further discount.