Sensible Sentencing Trust | Scoop InfoPages

Scoop InfoPages

This InfoPage in unregistered, if this is your news page register Sensible Sentencing Trust for InfoPages here.

Sensible Sentencing Trust - Latest News [Page 35]

Cop Attackers Should Be Treated as Terrorists

Monday, 13 December 2010, 3:43 pm | Sensible Sentencing Trust

The Sensible Sentencing Trust says the youths who attacked Police Officer Bruce Mellor should be treated as terrorists and sentenced as such. More >>

Samaritan Killer Would Die In Prison Under Three Strikes

Sunday, 12 December 2010, 7:08 pm | Sensible Sentencing Trust

Good Samaritan Killer Would Die In Prison Under Three Strikes Austin Hemmings killer would die in prison if New Zealand had a Three Strikes law before Pauesi Leofa Brown murdered the Good Samaritan in Auckland last year says the Sensible Sentencing Trust. ... More >>

RSA Victims Still Waiting 9 Years on

Wednesday, 8 December 2010, 11:14 am | Sensible Sentencing Trust

9 years after one of New Zealand’s most brutal crimes the victims and families of those murdered are still waiting for answers. It was the 8th December 2001 that William Bell bludgeoned three people to death in the Mt. Wellington RSA and left ... More >>

Police Chief’s comments a disgrace says victim advocate

Thursday, 25 November 2010, 11:46 am | Sensible Sentencing Trust

An organization that advocates for victims of serious crime has slammed Police Commissioner Howard Broads call for a cut in prison numbers. Sensible Sentencing Trust Spokesman Garth McVicar said the Commissioners comments were a disgrace to the Police organization. ... More >>

Victim Advocate On Criminal Justice Reforms

Tuesday, 16 November 2010, 9:32 am | Sensible Sentencing Trust

Victim Advocate Congratulates Government On Criminal Justice Reforms The Sensible Sentencing Trust is congratulating the Government on the radical overhaul of the Criminal Justice System – saying the Government has simply listened to the people. ... More >>

No Value On A Childs Life

Wednesday, 3 November 2010, 11:34 am | Sensible Sentencing Trust

No Value On A Childs Life Murderer of 4 Year Boy about to be Released even though the Parole Board Believe He Will Reoffend, the Sensible Sentencing Trust say New Zealand law places little value on a Childs life. The Facts: Defenseless, innocent ... More >>

Bill of Rights blamed for death of Good Samaritan

Tuesday, 2 November 2010, 5:24 pm | Sensible Sentencing Trust

The Sensible Sentencing Trust says offenders such as Pauesi Leofa Brown who killed Austin Hemmings should be subjected to preventive detention and lose all rights currently granted under the New Zealand Bill of Rights – including the right of appeal. More >>

Killer About to Walk Back into Community

Saturday, 23 October 2010, 12:09 pm | Sensible Sentencing Trust

A paranoid schizophrenic who beat a man to death with a garden spade before dousing him in petrol and setting him alight has been granted unsupervised leave less than two years after being committed to one of New Zealand's most secure forensic psychiatric ... More >>

Statement regarding David Garrett

Thursday, 16 September 2010, 2:58 pm | Sensible Sentencing Trust

David Garrett’s’ actions of identity theft 26 years ago were inexcusable and the Sensible Sentencing Trust acknowledges the tremendous hurt caused to the family concerned. More >>

Rita Croskery Replies To Critics

Wednesday, 1 September 2010, 10:08 am | Sensible Sentencing Trust

The woman whose experiences at the hands of the parole board have made headline news this week is hitting back at those critical of the Sensible Sentencing Trust and its annual Victim's Right's conference. More >>

The Road Behind – the Road Ahead

Tuesday, 31 August 2010, 9:36 am | Sensible Sentencing Trust

I would like to thank the may people in the audience who have helped get Sensible Sentencing to where it is. It has been an amazing experience. As I say to people it is the worst paying job I have ever had – I don’t get paid – but it is the ... More >>

Drivers who kill must be charged with murder

Saturday, 28 August 2010, 11:49 am | Sensible Sentencing Trust

The Sensible Sentencing Trust wants drivers who kill while attempting to outrun police to be charged with murder. More >>

Cross-Party Conference Lifts Trust to New Level

Monday, 23 August 2010, 5:04 pm | Sensible Sentencing Trust

Cross-party support for the annual Sensible Sentencing Trust conference in Wellington tomorrow is an indication of how far the justice watchdog group has come in the past decade, says spokesman Garth McVicar. More >>

Get Criminals Out of Courtroom, in Front of Camera

Monday, 16 August 2010, 2:55 pm | Sensible Sentencing Trust

The head of a justice watchdog group who sat in the courtroom while convicted killer George Baker interrogated witnesses and intimidated jurors while mounting his own defence says a video link from prison should be the only way a convicted criminal ... More >>

Sarah’s Law For New Zealand?

Tuesday, 3 August 2010, 10:45 am | Sensible Sentencing Trust

As a new Law to protect children against known sex offenders is rolled in the U K a New Zealand victim’s advocacy organization says it is time Sarah’s Law was introduced here – but they want to go further by having a publicly available register ... More >>

Police hold key to stopping attacks on Officers

Friday, 30 July 2010, 1:03 pm | Sensible Sentencing Trust

In lamenting the number of attacks on Police Officers going about their job, Police Minister Judith Collins blames the media reporting on Police conduct leading to a lack of respect for the Police, and also specifically mentions the number of people ... More >>

Excusing crime directly responsible for crime rate

Thursday, 1 April 2010, 4:52 pm | Sensible Sentencing Trust

“That government policies have an enormous effect on crime is shown clearly in the government’s own statistics” says Kevin Hicks of Sensible Sentencing Trust Auckland. “We have a high crime rate as a direct result of decades of governments ... More >>