8 May 2017
TANUVASA v NEW ZEALAND POLICE [2017] NZHC 939
- Citation
- [2017] NZHC 939
- Court
- High Court
The High Court held the District Court erred in selecting a 12-month starting point as excessive on these facts; an appropriate starting point was eight to nine months and after a 25% Hessell discount the substituted sentence is six months and two weeks' imprisonment; home detention was declined because the sentencing judge legitimately concluded, on reasonable grounds and given the appellant's history of breaching court orders, that the appellant was unlikely to comply with a non-custodial electronically monitored sentence and the District Court did not err in that exercise of discretion.