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Offender Databases Fabian Apanui

Fabian John Apanui

Alias

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Offences

Repeated vaginal and oral rape of a 20 year old Gisborne woman in 1996

Victims

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Offender Affiliations

Kenneth Raroa
Anton William Newcomb (deceased)

Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1973

Current Location

unknown

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to nine years in April 1997
Was initially just six years but increased upon Crown appeal

Background
From the Dominion April 29th 1997
THREE men who each raped a drunken woman and forced her to give them oral sex have had their jail sentences increased from six to nine years. Giving the Court of Appeal's decision on a Crown appeal, Justice Henry said aggravating features were the multiple rapes, the victim was a drunk 20 year old who had been taken to a secluded area, and she suffered painful injuries.

He said the judge who sentenced Fabian John Apanui, 24, Kenneth James Mason Raroa, 25, and Anton William Newcomb 24, in the High Court at Gisborne, had made too great an allowance for evidence that the victim had earlier encouraged them. A money machine video showed the victim embracing Apanui and another person's evidence was that she had kissed Newcombe passionately. Justice Henry said the conduct of the complainant could not lessen the culpability of the rapes.

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