Bay woman raped, beaten and terrorised

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An Eastern Bay of Plenty self-styled Mongrel Mob president who terrorised and intimidated a woman over 16 years, has been jailed for 18-and-a-half years.

Justice Sarah Katz stepped back from the preventive detention sentence the crown asked for in the High Court at Rotorua today, but stipulated Hoani Chase, 54, of Te Teko, must serve half his sentence before he's eligible to be assessed for parole.

After a judge-alone trail in October, she found Chase guilty of 28 violence and sexual abuse charges including rape.

Other charges were withdrawn during the trial and Chase admitted possessing explosives and receiving.

At sentencing, Justice Katz described Chase's conduct as a desperate 16-year campaign of terror and intimidation.

She outlined how Chase had, during that time, duct taped the woman to a chair for three days, repeatedly raping her, and how he'd again raped her within days of giving birth to twins by caesarean section. She was so badly injured, she'd had to be readmitted to hospital.

On another occasion he had roped her to the back of his car, dragging her down the road. She recounted how at times he knocked her unconscious kicking her with steel capped boots, attacks were often witnessed by the woman's young son.

She reminded Chase he had threatened to kill them both, that a sawn-off shotgun had been held to the woman and boy's heads and he'd smacked the woman in the mouth with the weapon.

She noted the woman had made multiple suicide attempts leaving her physically scarred.

Chase's repeated offending, which had often had near-fatal consequences, had been motivated by his irrational belief the woman was "perving" at other men or vice versa or, in the case of the duct taping, he accused her of narking on him to a policeman with whom he played rugby.

Referring to that attack, the judge said Chase had injured the woman's face so badly he couldn't bear to look at her so had covered her head.

She recounted how, after meeting Chase at a party in 1998, the woman had spent the night with him because she had been drinking.

Within days he returned to her home with gang members, claiming he was their president and, despite her protests, moved in.

Describing the woman as extremely courageous Justice Katz said her victim impact statement, which wasn't read in open court, outlined how she no longer slept with a knife under her pillow and was getting her self-esteem back.

It concluded with the words "I am going to live the best damn life ever, I am free of you, Chase."

Source: AAP

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7 comments

USA

Posted on 23-02-2017 14:04 | By maildrop

In the USA Judges can be voted out if they do not hand out sentences that we, the People, demand. Seems a better idea to me than the system we have of the faceless, "I know best", unaccountable, out of touch Judges who consistently treat the offenders with much more sympathy and leniency than the offenders show their victims. 16 years of torture and rape, victim scarred for life, he likes explosives and he has to serve a minimum 9 or 10 years. Judge Judy would have been tougher.


Is it time...

Posted on 23-02-2017 16:26 | By morepork

... for another debate on Capital Punishment?


Mongrel indeed!

Posted on 23-02-2017 17:22 | By Linaire

Sentenced for 18 and a half years, but eligible to be assessed for parole after serving half of his sentence? Are you crazy!?! After what he did to this woman, and after what this woman has endured for 16 years!! Cmon ... he should have to serve his FULL sentence, before he even gets a chance to be assessed for parole! This just makes me feel physically sick.


in

Posted on 23-02-2017 18:31 | By Capt_Kaveman

cases like this id send him to the chair


why is this scum still breathing

Posted on 24-02-2017 06:53 | By Mein Fuhrer

lets hope some real justice is served in jail with a long slow painful beating ending in agonising death for this oxygen theif.


Societies Underbelly

Posted on 24-02-2017 09:10 | By waiknot

I only got halfway through this story before I started felling ill because of what I was reading. You know there is an underbelly to society but this article laid it out. So glad a jury didn't need to fall victim, and have to listen to all of this. As for what needs to happen to the perpetrator, I know what I'd like to do. Hell of a job for the judge.


And many....

Posted on 24-02-2017 12:29 | By Jimmy

thought the movie "once we were warriors", was good!, sick sick society when gratuitous domestic violence is glorified!, plus this sorry excuse for a human will probably thrive in prison.


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