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Kane Michael Barker

Alias

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Offences

Involved in the shooting of two people at a party in Christchurch in July 2007
Also various other weapons convictions
Convicted on 16 charges of importation of a Class B drug in mid 2009

Victims

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Offender Affiliations

Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1986

Current Location

At large in Christchurch

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to 160 hours of community work in July 2007
Sentenced to three years four months in July 2009
Released March 2011

Background
Sentencing detailed in Christchurch Court News story here
Christchurch Court News story here
Police found a pistol made out of a 10cm tube and a spring during a drugs search at a house in Merivale. The zip-gun was found in a tin with 88 rounds of .22 ammunition, Judge Brian Callaghan was told in the Christchurch District Court today.

Kane Michael Barker, an unemployed 20-year-old, pleaded guilty to charges of possession of cannabis, unlawful possession of a pistol and ammunition, and receiving stolen property.

Christchurch Court News story here

The Press, 17 December 2007
A man has narrowly avoided jail for a vigilante-style airgun attack on a young woman in which innocent bystanders were shot at.

South African-born Reghardt Roux, 22, on Friday received five months home detention plus 200 hours community work from Christchurch District Court Judge Stephen Erber, who said someone could easily have lost an eye from the fusillade of pellets. He said that on July 20, Roux and two others had gone to "pay out" a young woman over a perceived grievance. His friend, dealt with separately, carried a sawn-off air rifle, and Roux an automatic air pistol.

Roux fired about 12 shots, hitting one person. Two others were also shot at, and all were frightened. "You could easily have put an eye out, in which case you could have been before the court for grievous bodily harm," the judge said. There was a growing tendency for young people to resort to vigilante-style justice. Roux was a "young lout" who was prone to the use of violence. He needed to amend his behaviour, and soon, the judge said.

A charge of male assaults female arose from an unrelated attack on Roux's girlfriend in which she was slapped, slammed into a wall, and squeezed round the neck. Roux also burned her arm, the attack arising after he questioned her fidelity. Roux admitted charges of recklessly discharging an airgun, two counts of assault with an airgun, unlawfully possessing an air pistol, and male assaults female.

The judge said initially he thought jail was the only response. The attack was revengeful, done in concert with others and had potential for serious harm. He concluded Roux was under the influence of his friends at the time and jail was not a suitable environment. Special conditions included abstention from alcohol and drugs for the five months of home detention, and that he take counselling as directed. Roux was also ordered to pay $900 reparation for emotional harm

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