A teen involved in a service station armed robbery has received a flurry of discounts that has reduced his sentence by 65 per cent. Judge Denise Clark took a start point of four years and 10 months’ prison, but Rueben’s counsel Sacha Nepe successfully convinced her not to send the teen to prison. Judge Clark got to an end jail term of eight months’ prison. He pushed for a five-year jail starting point and accepted while home detention could be an option, community detention would be “wholly inadequate”. She suggested the judge couple community detention with an intensive supervision sentence.

Source: New Zealand Herald July 22, 2024 22:11 UTC