The victim s wife thought the prison sentence was inadequate. “This man nearly killed my husband and he gets what, 10 months? Jason nearly died. When they airlifted him, the ICU rung me that night and said you need to get here . so we left in the early hours of the morning and went over to Wellington,” she said. Judge Jan Kelly established a starting point for the sentence of 15 months’ imprisonment based on similar cases and gave Pahi a discount on the term for time served and an early guilty plea. With some prompting from the judge, Pahi apologised to Arlyn Johnson in court before he was taken away to serve his sentence.