Auckland farmer loses sentence appeal for misrepresenting 3 million caged eggs as free range
23 Dec, 2020 04:32 AM
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A West Auckland chicken farmer has lost an appeal against his home detention after misrepresenting millions of caged eggs as free range. Xue (Frank) Chen was sentenced to a year of home detention after pleading guilty to a single representative charge of obtaining by deception, revealed by the Herald in July.
He is serving it at his Henderson Valley Rd poultry farm.
However, Chen challenged the decision last month in the High Court on the basis the starting point, of three years imprisonment, adopted by Judge Christopher Field was too high. His lawyer, Fletcher Pilditch, also argued home detention was not the least restrictive outcome nor one which best provided for his rehabilitation and reintegration.
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