25 May 2022
UNSWORTH v NEW ZEALAND POLICE [2022] NZHC 1159
- Citation
- [2022] NZHC 1159
- Court
- High Court
Given the appellant's recent history of breaches including a contemporaneous break-in of the protected person's home and prior imprisonment for a prior breach, the 12 month starting point was not excessive; however the guilty plea discount should have been the full amount for an early plea, and taking that together with the knife uplift being toward the top of the range, the appropriate sentence for the breach is reduced from 12 months to 10 months' imprisonment, with concurrent sentences and release conditions left unchanged.
- Breach of protection order
- Possession of a knife in public
- Guilty plea discount
- Sentencing uplift
- Starting point selection
- Prior convictions