Across the country, police are approaching innocent young people, photographing them, collecting their personal details and sending it all to a national database.
The victim’s elderly mother, who was in a wheelchair, had watched the attack. Tanirau Whaanga’s lawyer, Chris Nicholls, had said at sentencing that his client had attempted to get help for anger issues and was a walking time bomb just ready to go off. At the time Tanirau Whaanga headbutted the victim he was still serving a sentence of intensive supervision for an earlier attack in which he had stomped on the neck of a man laid out unconscious by a relative. The prone man s neck bore the pattern from the sole of Tanirau Whaanga s shoe. John Pratt, a professor of Criminology at the Institute of Criminology at Victoria University, is undertaking research on the relationship between risk, populism and criminal justice.
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