29 Nov 2018
R v TE KANI [2018] NZHC 3134
- Citation
- [2018] NZHC 3134
- Court
- High Court
The judge identified the defendant's active participation in initial assaults, his role in isolating the victims and his awareness that further violence would occur as sufficient culpability to set a manslaughter starting point at eight years (uplifted three years for the second death), imposed two-year starting points for each accessory-after-the-fact charge, a seven-year starting point for manufacture under R v Fatu, and one month on each neglect charge; aggregated to 19 years 7 months, reduced by a just under 10% guilty-plea discount to 17 years 8 months, then further reduced to 15 years t…