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Offender Databases Hana Aranui

Hana Tewhetuhana Aranui

Alias

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Offences

Took part in the killing of 72 year old Roy Wiseman of Gisborne in May 1996
Also involved in running down a guard at Arohata prison in April 2000

Victims

Roy Wiseman

Offender Affiliations

Eli Nia Nia was the primary offender

Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1979

Current Location

unknown

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to 5 years in September 1997
Paroled 1999-2000, reoffended April 2000
Sentenced to 6 months (concurrently!) in June 2000
Since released

Background
From a Dominion story 24/09/1997
A YOUNG woman retried in the High Court at Gisborne was found guilty again yesterday of being party to the manslaughter of a Gisborne pensioner.

Hana Tewhetuhana Aranui, 18, was sentenced to five years' imprisonment. In August last year, Aranui and her co-accused, Eli Nia Nia, aged 20, stood trial on a charge of murdering Roy Wiseman, whose body was found down a bank 28 kilometres north of Gisborne on May 11, 1996. The jury returned manslaughter verdicts and the pair were sentenced in September. Aranui received a six-year jail term, and Nia Nia received a nine-year term. Aranui successfully appealed against her conviction and a retrial was ordered. The Court of Appeal ruled that the jury had not been properly directed on the law that covered her alleged part in the case. Justice Tompkins, who presided over the retrial, imposed a lesser prison term to recognise Aranui's more responsible attitude. The jury deliberated for an hour and 45 minutes before reaching the guilty verdict.

From a Dominion story 14/06/2000
ONE of two women who ran over a prison guard was yesterday sentenced to six months' jail. Hana Aranui, 20, of Wairoa, was sentenced by Chief District Court Judge Ron Young in Porirua District Court to six months' jail to run concurrent with the remainder of a five-year sentence for manslaughter. Aranui, on parole from Arohata prison for good behaviour at the time of the incident, had 18 months of her manslaughter sentence to serve. Aranui and former inmate Shontei Lawson deliberately drove into the guard on April 28 after visiting the prison to take clothes to a friend. The impact lifted the guard on to the car bonnet and Lawson drove around the prison grounds with the guard hanging on to the windshield wipers. Aranui was charged with being a party to an assault with intent to injure. Lawson, 20, a Johnsonville solo mother, was sentenced to nine months' prison last month after pleading guilty to assault with intent to injure. Defence lawyer Michael Scott said it was an especially sad case because Aranui had already spent almost one quarter of her life in prison.

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