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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Two young boys, 14 and 15, were alone when it happened to them.
They were standing outside Cash Converters on Whanganui s main street, waiting for their koro to finish looking in the store, when two policemen caught their eye. Before long, the officers were standing at their feet. Where s the bag of money you stole, one officer asked, nearly shouting.
The boys were surprised. And they were confused. They denied knowing anything about the stolen money, but that did not convince the men in uniform. Strangers driving past gawked out their windows as the officers explained they met the description of offenders they were looking for.
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