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AWOL Sex Offender puts kids’ safety at risk – SST
Monday, 28 September 2015, 9:51 am | Sensible Sentencing Trust
McVicar said SST was renewing its call for publicly available sex offender register so that the eyes and ears of every member of the public could be utilised in supporting the police and knowing the whereabouts of these despicable creatures to ensure they ... More >>
Home invasion should be treated as terrorism - SST
Monday, 21 September 2015, 12:30 pm | Sensible Sentencing Trust
“People should be safe in their home –especially the elderly – anyone committing home invasion should face the full force of the law and be charged and sentenced as terrorists.” SST More >>
Petricevic is certainly not broke
Saturday, 5 September 2015, 11:40 am | Sensible Sentencing Trust
The Sensible Sentencing Trust was disappointed with the High Court’s decision yesterday that it did not have “standing” to bring an action asking the Court to review a decision of the Parole Board to release serial fraudster Rod Petricevic from prison ... More >>
Petricevic should serve his full sentence
Wednesday, 26 August 2015, 7:37 am | Sensible Sentencing Trust
The Sensible Sentencing Trust abhors the Parole Board’s decision to release the serial fraudster Rod Petricevic less than half way into his six year 10 month sentence for fraudulently diverting investors’ money to his own purpose – buying, among ... More >>
Is Electronic Monitoring Fool Proof Or Run by Fools?
Friday, 21 August 2015, 8:12 am | Sensible Sentencing Trust
The Sensible Sentencing Trust says that Electronic Monitoring is putting public safety in jeopardy and is calling for a complete review of the system. More >>
Crime wave to hit New Zealand
Sunday, 16 August 2015, 11:15 am | Sensible Sentencing Trust
“This is one-way traffic of epic proportions and is alarming for New Zealanders, this is the most damning evidence on how violent some sectors of New Zealand society has become.” - McVicar More >>
A sex offender register is a child’s right
Friday, 14 August 2015, 9:29 am | Sensible Sentencing Trust
The Attorney General has a responsibility as guardian of public interest, by definition that must include our children, but if Mr. Finlayson has been reported correctly it appears he is more concerned about the protection of child abusers than the protection ... More >>
Mother Sold Her Daughter to Next Door Neighbor for Sex
Saturday, 8 August 2015, 1:55 pm | Sensible Sentencing Trust
A Victim Advocacy group says they sincerely hope the Judge throws the full force of the law at the Mother who sold her young daughter to the next door neighbour for sex. More >>
Sensible Sentencing Trust Congratulates Minister of Justice
Saturday, 8 August 2015, 10:31 am | Sensible Sentencing Trust
The SST is thrilled with Minister Adam's announcement on Wednesday that there will be a review with the intention of strengthening New Zealand’s legislative response to family violence. Spokesperson for the trust Jayne Walker says "We think it ... More >>
Blessie – Robertson – Keane – Brewer – You be the Judge
Friday, 7 August 2015, 9:41 am | Sensible Sentencing Trust
The Sensible Sentencing Trust is calling on the Government to change the law to allow the Crown to apply for preventive detention to be re-considered when an offender has reached the end of their sentence. More >>
Blessie: Sos to Simon Bridges to Change Law
Thursday, 6 August 2015, 4:32 pm | Sensible Sentencing Trust
“Mr Bridges is now in a position to instigate a review of New Zealand’s Justice System to ensure a repeat of the Blessie Gotingco tragedy never happens again.” Garth McVicar More >>
Greater scope to impose Preventive Detention needed
Wednesday, 29 July 2015, 8:09 am | Sensible Sentencing Trust
The Sensible Sentencing Trust is calling on the Government to change the law to allow the Crown to apply for preventive detention to be re-considered when an offender has reached the end of their sentence. More >>
PM wrong on sex-offender register - McVicar
Tuesday, 21 July 2015, 5:20 pm | Sensible Sentencing Trust
The Founder of New Zealand’s largest privately funded Victims’ Rights and Justice Reform organisation says the Prime Minister doesn’t seem to understand the issues around paedophilia, the prolific nature of it and the harm paedophiles are causing ... More >>
Arsonists Sentence Step in the Right Direction: SST
Thursday, 9 July 2015, 8:17 am | Sensible Sentencing Trust
The sentence handed down to a Blenheim man charged with the Christmas Day arson of a Work and Income office has been welcomed by the Sensible Sentencing Trust. More >>
Blessie Gotingco: Public consulted on killer’s sentence
Thursday, 25 June 2015, 5:22 pm | Sensible Sentencing Trust
The public are being invited to take part in a survey on what the sentence of the man found guilty of the murder of Blessie Gotingco should be. More >>
Blessie Gotingco: Public consulted on killers sentence
Thursday, 25 June 2015, 4:22 pm | Sensible Sentencing Trust
The public are being invited to take part in a survey on what the sentence of the man found guilty of the murder of Blessie Gotingco should be. More >>
Arun Kumar murder - two steps back for Law & Order
Wednesday, 24 June 2015, 9:36 am | Sensible Sentencing Trust
The accused murderer of Arun Kumar was found not guilty on charges of murder instead guilty of manslaughter. His accomplice was found not guilty of all charges. More >>
Three Strikes Spells More Trouble for Labour
Tuesday, 9 June 2015, 12:53 pm | Sensible Sentencing Trust
With the five year anniversary of “three strikes” (3S), the Sensible Sentencing trust set up a poll on its website [ www.sst.org.nz] to get some feel for voters’ reaction to Labour who say they “want the three strikes law gone”. A healthy ... More >>
Labour just doesn’t get it – SST launches poll to prove it!
Thursday, 4 June 2015, 3:46 pm | Sensible Sentencing Trust
4th June 2015 In June 2010 the National government passed a “three strikes” (3S) law. On 3 June 2015 the Labour Party’s Justice Spokesperson Jacinda Ardern announced that Labour “wanted the law gone”. The law applies only to offences of serious ... More >>
USA Judge gives child abuser 160 years
Thursday, 4 June 2015, 10:57 am | Sensible Sentencing Trust
Judge William Carpenter sentenced serial child abuser to 160 years saying he would never harm a child again, the Sensible Sentencing Trust says New Zealand need similar sentences if we are to ever get on top of child abuse. More >>
