Moral welfare of young girls at risk from high risk porn offender
Paedophile may remain a risk
The Crown is having second thoughts about its decision not to seek an open-ended preventive detention sentence for a 39-year old man [name removed] who disclosed more sex offences involving children, while he was undergoing treatment in prison. He disclosed 16 sex charges against eight young girls while doing the Kia Marama sex offenders’ programme in Christchurch Men’s Prison.
After his guilty pleas, the Crown decided not to seek preventive detention but it has been rethinking that decision after access was barred to reports on his treatment at the programme. Without those reports, the Crown faced a difficult assessment of any future risk to the community that the offender might pose.
In court today, the offender agreed to allow access by the Crown and his defence counsel to reports prepared on his treatment after the crown prosecutor sought a direction on the matter from Christchurch District Court Judge David Saunders.
The offender has a history of offending stretching back 20 years and the latest offences for which he now faces sentencing were committed from the 1990s to 2005 in Timaru.
He is seen as having a deeply entrenched sexual attraction to children, and is assessed as a high-risk pornography offender.
He is serving a two-year four-month term imposed in May last year for possession of objectionable material including images of bestiality and child pornography.
For more see: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/5862862/Paedophile-may-remain-a-risk
Story by David Clarkson, Dominion Post, 27 October 2011.
Suicide pact charges ‘barbaric’ says lawyer – Dominion Post
A judge told her to walk away and live, but the lawyer for a woman who escaped serious penalty for her part in a suicide pact in which another woman died says she should not have been charged.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/5858567/Suicide-pact-charges-barbaric [Read more…]
May Wang charged with corruption – NZ Herald
Former Crafar farms bidder May Wang has been charged with corruption in Hong Kong, over business dealings said to have happened here in New Zealand while she was trying to buy the dairy farms.
Hong Kong’s Independent Commission Against Corruption has charged the bankrupt May Wang with conspiring to bribe officials with two New Zealand properties and money laundering, and has issued a warrant for the arrest of Jack Chen for his role in the scheme.
For full article see: NZ Herald 19 October 2011
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10759961
AUT fraudster Jonathan Kirkpatrick jailed
Jonathan Kirkpatrick, the former dean of Dunedin’s St Paul’s Cathedral and former partner of ex-Labour MP Tim Barnett, who was recently convicted for fraud, was sentenced today in the Auckland District Court to three years and two months jail.
Fairfax Media report:
A former manager at the Auckland University of Technology stole over $600,000 from his employer and frittered it away on a lavish lifestyle, flash cars and holidays, a court has heard.
Today his extravagance caught up with him.
Jonathan Kirkpatrick, 53, was sentenced to three years, two months’ imprisonment for the fraud in the Auckland District Court today for stealing $666,000 from AUT between 2002 and May this year.
Crown lawyer Rachael Reed said over eight and a half years, Kirkpatrick used over 82 invoices paid out to companies he set up to steal the hefty sum.
He was authorised in his role, as CEO of AUT’s business innovation centre, to issue invoices of up to $15,000 without supervision.
Reed said Kirkpatrick spent the money on top of his salary, which was $90,000 when he began at AUT in 2002 and rose to $150,000 by the time he resigned in July.
“This is a man who should have no need to steal but who obviously had taste beyond his salaried means,” she said.
Judge AA Sinclair said Kirkpatrick’s offending was motivated by greed. [Read more…]