PHOTO: ODT FILESA violent sex offender who spent six years locked up only lasted a month in the community before being sent back behind bars. Daniel Waka Minogue, 44, appeared in the Dunedin District Court yesterday after earlier pleading guilty to wilful damage and two charges of breaching release conditions. At the time, Stuff reported most of the allegations related to Minogue taking a woman to a remote part of the Waimakariri riverbed. The woman believed he sexually violated her in the course of a search for drugs, Stuff reported. Yesterday, Judge David Robinson sentenced Minogue to three months’ imprisonment.

Source: Otago Daily Times January 15, 2026 15:53 UTC