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GPS tracking confirms ‘treatment theory’ has failed
Thursday, 28 June 2012, 1:37 pm | Sensible Sentencing Trust
For immediate release: GPS tracking confirms ‘treatment theory’ has failed “GPS tracking currently is far from fool-proof, any good IT person can use a cell-phone to fool and / or block a GPS signal. It is our belief potential victims will be put ... More >>
Police congratulated for on-line wanted list
Friday, 22 June 2012, 9:10 am | Sensible Sentencing Trust
The Sensible Sentencing Trust has congratulated the Eastern and Wellington police regions for being the first two districts in the country to post ‘wanted’ lists on a newly created web-site. More >>
Bail breaches cause huge problems for police
Thursday, 21 June 2012, 11:49 am | Sensible Sentencing Trust
Mr. McVicar said recent figures released under the Official Information Act showed that the Courts were failing to impose adequate penalties on offenders who breached bail. ________________________________________ For immediate release: Bail breaches ... More >>
Trespassing Police Officers ‘dumb’ says Trust
Thursday, 21 June 2012, 9:40 am | Sensible Sentencing Trust
For immediate release: Trespassing Police Officers ‘dumb’ says Trust Sensible Sentencing Trust Spokesman Garth McVicar has slammed a Judge who allowed a criminal to effectively trespass Police to stop them checking to ensure he was abiding by ... More >>
System insults sex abuse victims once again
Saturday, 16 June 2012, 8:06 pm | Sensible Sentencing Trust
System insults sex abuse victims once again A victims advocacy group has described the decision to allow alleged serial rapist William Paul Cornelius, who is alleged to have raped four victims over a 30 year period, to not stand trial and walk free ... More >>
Christies’ Law bolstered by Great Barrier debacle
Thursday, 14 June 2012, 3:44 pm | Sensible Sentencing Trust
The recent kidnapping of a woman on Great Barrier Island by an offender on bail has bolstered the support for bail reform says the Sensible Sentencing Trust. Nortessa Montgomerie was kidnapped, threatened and subjected to physical abuse while being ... More >>
Naivety Around Insanity Verdict
Friday, 1 June 2012, 10:43 am | Sensible Sentencing Trust
“Justice Gendall is naive to suggest that Aleni would be detained in a secure therapeutic environment for any length of time” Mr Moyle said, “Alenis’ psychiatrists will have other ideas. More >>
War on P far from won
Friday, 1 June 2012, 10:37 am | Sensible Sentencing Trust
The Sensible Sentencing Trust joins with Dale Kirk of Methcon in not sharing the Police and Ministry of Health's optimism that they have all but won the “War on P”. More >>
Bail Battle Goes to Parliament
Sunday, 27 May 2012, 11:14 am | Sensible Sentencing Trust
The mother of slain teenager Christie Marceau is to speak at Parliament next week in a bid to change the law in memory of her "Princess". Christie, 18, died in her mother Tracey's arms in November after an attack at their North Shore home. More >>
Mild Dementia or Corrupt Justice
Tuesday, 22 May 2012, 2:44 pm | Sensible Sentencing Trust
As the furore over the sex-slave issue rages the Sensible Sentencing Trust is questioning the system that will allow the man responsible to walk free while maintaining complete anonymity. More >>
Minister of Correction congratulated on bold vision
Tuesday, 22 May 2012, 9:41 am | Sensible Sentencing Trust
“We have known for many years that two thirds of prisoners have drug addiction problems, and that up to 90 per cent can’t read or write and yet prisons were expected to be the one-stop-shop for all social failings.” McVicar ________________________________________ ... More >>
Justice System in trouble as serial rapist walks free
Monday, 21 May 2012, 12:23 pm | Sensible Sentencing Trust
The Sensible Sentencing Trust believes our Justice System is in serious trouble after a man who kept teenage girls as sex slaves in a remote bush hut will escape sentence because he has developed mild dementia. More >>
Christie’s Law
Saturday, 19 May 2012, 2:56 pm | Sensible Sentencing Trust
In October last year the Sensible Sentencing Trust congratulated then Justice Minister Simon Power and the National led government for their proposed tightening of access to bail in The Bail Amendment Bill. The Bill was put forward to see restrictions ... More >>
System failures lead to sex offences against children
Wednesday, 16 May 2012, 6:29 pm | Sensible Sentencing Trust
The Sensible Sentencing Trust is saddened and dismayed that failures within the New Zealand criminal justice system have lead to sex offences being committed against children. More >>
Court Of Appeal Court Judges Must Be On Cannabis
Wednesday, 16 May 2012, 1:13 pm | Sensible Sentencing Trust
Following a decision by the Court of Appeal to reduce the sentence of a man who violently assaulted his girl friend the Sensible Sentencing Trust is asking how many of the Judges involved are on cannabis. Trust Spokesman, Garth McVicar said the decision ... More >>
Court of Appeal Court Judges Must be on Cannabis
Tuesday, 15 May 2012, 12:53 pm | Sensible Sentencing Trust
Following a decision by the Court of Appeal to reduce the sentence of a man who violently assaulted his girl friend the Sensible Sentencing Trust is asking how many of the Judges involved are on cannabis. More >>
Release of killer of 83 year-old widow appalling
Thursday, 3 May 2012, 6:01 pm | Sensible Sentencing Trust
The proposed release of a man who raped and murdered 83-year-old widow Nora Sole in her New Plymouth home in February 1992 has infuriated the Sensible Sentencing Trust. More >>
Just ask the victims...
Friday, 27 April 2012, 9:25 am | Sensible Sentencing Trust
The Sensible Sentencing Trust is very disappointed that both Labour and the Greens are opposed to implementing a national sex offender register. They claim that such registers are historically prone to mistakes which can devastate innocent people’s ... More >>
Just ask the victims...
Friday, 27 April 2012, 8:39 am | Sensible Sentencing Trust
A sex offender register will put the interests of victims and law-abiding citizens first: simple as that. More >>
Sex offender register must be open to public
Thursday, 26 April 2012, 10:39 am | Sensible Sentencing Trust
For immediate release: Sex offender register must be open to public says Victim advocate Following today’s announcement that Police Minister Anne Tolley is considering plans to introduce a sex offender register the Sensible Sentencing Trust is calling ... More >>
