Meet a zero striker #5

Kingi RATIMA is a Third Striker.  He is a recidivist robber and a recidivist burglar.

Aged in his mid-30s, he has over 105! criminal convictions as an adult and an unknown number of youth court convictions.

Probation has assessed him at a very high risk of reoffending and poses a high risk of harm to others. Obviously.

For his third strike, he attacked a man unprovoked, throwing the victim to the ground and repeatedly stomping on the victim’s head.  The victim could easily have died or suffered life-altering injuries. Kingi Ratima was convicted on a charge of robbery.

He is a menace to law abiding society and a danger to those he comes in contact with.

Under the Government’s proposed re-introduction of Three Strikes 2.0, he will be on a clean slate.  His prior strike offences count for nothing, and he is a zero striker.

Just as bad, under the Government’s proposed Three Strikes 2.0, Kingi Ratima would not qualify as a Third Striker if he did it all again!

This is because it is proposed that a person would only be a striker if they had been sentenced to more than 24 months imprisonment for all strike offences.

For Kingi Ratima’s first strike offence – a robbery – he was only sentenced to 1 year imprisonment.  For his second strike offence – another robbery – he was sentenced to just 1 year and 4 months imprisonment.Neither meet the Government’s threshold to be considered a striker AT ALL!

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