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George Baker
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Murder of 17 year old Liam Ashley in a prison van in Auckland in August 2006
This occurred while he was in custody for stabbing a North Shore youth in April 2006 and threatening to kill witnesses in that case.
He also has more than 70 other convictions including home invasion robbery of an elderly woman, threatening to kill, aggravated robbery and serious assault
Also assaulted prison guards a number of times while serving time for the home invasion
Liam Ashley
Black Power
Born 1981
Prison
Served just seven years from 1999 for the home invasion
Released late March 2006, stabbed the North Shore youth three weeks later
Sentenced in December 2006 to 18 years minimum for Liam's murder
Eligible for parole from March 2024 on....
That is more like it.
Well done Justice Rhys Harrison.
Twice attempted to appeal this sentence, both appeals were thankfully dismissed!
Background
NZ Herald story here and more on his history here
Sentencing detailed here
From a Stuff article December 2006
The man who admitted killing North Shore teenager Liam Ashley in a prison van in Auckland earlier this year can now be named. Name suppression had been granted to George Charlie Baker, 25, because he was facing other unrelated charges. But his lawyer Tony Bouchier said Baker has now pleaded guilty to those other charges - two of threatening to kill, one of aggravated robbery and one of assault with intent to wound. Mr Bouchier said Baker would be sentenced on all the charges he admitted, including Ashley's murder, when he appears in the High Court in Auckland on December 15. Baker admitted killing Ashley when he appeared in Auckland District Court on November 2.
Ashley died a day after being attacked in the back of a security van transporting him and other prisoners from North Shore District Court to prison in Auckland's Mt Eden Remand Centre on August 24. Ashley was being taken to remand prison after his parents said they did not want him released on bail on a car-stealing charge and instead wanted him to experience the effects of breaking the law as an adult. The 25-year-old accused from Onehunga killed the 17-year-old because he thought Ashley was a "nark", crown lawyer Simon Moore told the Auckland District Court. The incident raised questions as to why a 17-year-old was allowed to travel in confinement with an adult prisoner.
A flurry of official reports was launched, but more than three months later Ashley's parents are still waiting to receive the information they desperately seek. A security report which was supposed to be released on October 20 and then delayed to yesterday has been delayed again. Department of Corrections chief executive Barry Matthews said the draft of the report into the youth's fatal beating was due to be finished yesterday but it had to be checked to ensure all the facts were accurate. "The events that led to Liam's death are not as simple as they may appear," he said. "There are a number of complexities involving the number of agencies concerned that has led to unavoidable delay."
