A teenager high on a cocktail of drink and drugs has been jailed for nearly two years after killing an innocent bystander with a single punch. "You ran from the scene and you told someone you know you had just 'king -hit' someone," Justice Davidson said. That is not an explanation which washes," Justice Davidson said. But Justice Davidson said he did not consider the purposes and principles of sentencing would have been sufficiently met by home detention. Justice Davidson sentenced Palmer to 22 months' imprisonment.

Source: Otago Daily Times August 22, 2016 22:18 UTC