A High Court judge says the nine-month home detention sentence for Jayden Meyer, who raped four girls, “was manifestly inadequate” but has rejected a Crown appeal against the sentence. Meyer, now 18, received a nine-month home detention sentence which he is understood to be serving at a family residence in Auckland. She also outlined why an alternative submission to increase his home detention sentence was also rejected, despite noting she was “initially attracted to that suggestion”. However, she also acknowledged that, until the appeal was filed, “a sentence of imprisonment had never been suggested as a possible sentence in this case”. Meyer is serving a nine-month home detention sentence for raping four young women and sexually violating another.

Source: Stuff October 19, 2022 03:19 UTC