12 Jun 2020
R v TAKAMORE [2020] NZHC 1328
- Citation
- [2020] NZHC 1328
- Court
- High Court
Because no suitable home detention address was available and the failure to complete home detention was substantially due to circumstances outside the offender's control, the Court cancelled the home detention and substituted a term of imprisonment reflecting the original sentencing intent while crediting the offender for having completed half of the home detention period; remand time will be accounted for by the Department for release but not by the Court in fixing sentence, yielding a substituted sentence of 15 months' imprisonment plus two weeks cumulative for outstanding community work an…