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Lloyd Currie
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More than twelve assaults from 1997 to 2004, two charges of grevious bodily harm including on a female prison officer in September 2001, two of posssession of a weapon, plus threatening to kill more than once, robbery.
Rendering a Papakura man incapable of resistance with intent to facilitate the crime of aggravated robbery, aggravated robbery of his motorcar and possession of a firearm and ammunition in May 2008.
A number of the assaults occurred while he was on bail.
Also various convictions for shoplifting, burglary etc etc
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none known
Born 1974
Prison
Sentenced to two years eight months in December 1997
Sentenced to just two years three months in September 2001
Sentenced to just two years nine months in August 2006
Released on home detention February 2008
Recalled to prison March 2008
Released at sentence expiry date July 2008
Sentenced to ten years for his latest offences
Unsuccessfully appealed in September 2010
Background
From the Christchurch Press 12/12/1997
A prison inmate who became aggressive and pulled a knife while out on bail had two months added to his sentence by Judge Murray Abbott in the Christchurch District Court. Lloyd Nathan Currie, 23, appeared yesterday for sentence for possessing an offensive weapon, relating to an incident on March 30. Judge Abbott said Currie was at home on bail at the time. He was affected by alcohol when he became aggressive and pulled out a knife, which he pointed at another person.
Currie had received a chance to show he could live in the community without offending, but he had been unable to do this, he said. Judge Abbott added two months to the two and a half year sentence Currie was serving on other matters, which included three incidents of intentional violence. A cumulative sentence had to be imposed, but should reflect the time Currie had already spent in custody, said Judge Abbott.
From the Christchurch Press 06/09/2001
Bernadette Bradley knows the dangers prison officers face daily and the unpredictable violence Defence Force members may be exposed to.
She did not join her 80 colleagues on the picket line outside Paparua Prison yesterday, protesting after the Government suspended 1800 national prison officers over a pay dispute. Instead, Ms Bradley was in hospital having a brain scan for frequent headaches she now suffers following a serious assault by an inmate "nutting off" 18 days ago.
She was beaten unconscious by a remand prisoner after she asked him to get off the phone and return to his cell. He became aggressive, smashed down the phone handpiece and, without warning, punched Ms Bradley in the face with a closed fist. She hit her head against a steel reinforced door and the inmate punched her again. "The other officer who was with me thought I was dead, the way I bounced off the wall," said Ms Bradley, 33, a mother of two. "My face was lovely shades of black, blue, and green. "She is still off work, on ACC, while she recovers from the bruises, two chipped teeth, and emotional trauma.
Two male prison officers who came to Ms Bradley's aid during the attack were also assaulted by the inmate. Lloyd Nathan Currie, 27, pleaded guilty in the Christchurch District Court last month to assaulting the three officers, and escaping from custody. He was due to appear in court the day after the attack, on an unrelated matter, but leapt from the dock and tried to escape, only to be caught by police. He was remanded in custody for sentence.
From the Christchurch Press 21/09/2001
A violent criminal has been sent back to jail for a month-long crime binge in Canterbury that continued after he was remanded in custody. Lloyd Nathan Currie, 27, had been caught shoplifting in Riccarton Mall but fled from the police by pushing other shoppers out of his way while brandishing a hunting knife with a 15cm blade. He was tackled by a passerby and later remanded to Paparua Prison by a Christchurch District Court judge, but he launched a sudden and unprovoked attack on a female prison officer, knocking her out with one punch and then attacking two other officers who came to her aid.
When he appeared in the Christchurch District Court on charges for that attack the following day, he fled from the dock but was caught before he could leave the building. Currie appeared for sentence in the same dock from which he had fled but this time was handcuffed throughout the hearing and flanked by two guards. He pleaded guilty to stealing a cash box from a Christchurch company, receiving stolen credit and bank cards in Kaikoura, shoplifting in Riccarton Mall, assaulting passersby by pushing past them to escape from the police, possession of a knife, and resisting the police. He also admitted assaulting a woman -- the prison officer -- and two other guards, and escaping custody.
David Ruth, defending, said the knife was not used against anyone, even when Currie was cornered in Riccarton Mall, and he was remorseful for the entire course of offending. The prison assault was a matter of Currie "losing control". Judge David Holderness said the presence of the knife in Riccarton Mall was "far from minor" and the prison assault was clearly a serious one that had substantial and lasting consequences for the female prison officer and the two other victims. "You have a lengthy list of previous offending, including by my count 10 convictions for assault, one of robbery, and another of wounding.
The wounding charge resulted in three years in prison," he said. "Your record reveals a continuing pattern of violent offending. In prison there is always a risk of other inmates becoming involved. Prison officers are entitled to the protection of the courts and sentences for offences of this nature should be so as to deter other inmates' attacks. "Currie was sentenced to a total of two years and three months jail.
From the Southland Times 12/02/2004
An Auckland man who requested bail in the Invercargill District Court yesterday so he could go clothes shopping before returning to Auckland was told he could not be trusted and would be kept in custody until his flight. Lloyd Nathan Currie, 29, unemployed, appeared before Judge Noel Walsh on charges of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, assault using a bottle as a weapon and threatening to kill on December 12. The complainant received a broken jaw, nose and two cheekbones and spent three hours in the operating theatre following the alleged attack.
Currie was remanded on bail to April 28 for depositions on the condition he left Invercargill on the 4.40pm flight to Auckland yesterday. He was not to return to the city until the depositions except to consult his lawyer or appear in court, Judge Walsh said. Defence counsel Hugo Young said Currie needed to be released on bail yesterday morning so he could "go shopping." "He feels he should get bail. He wants to get lunch, he wants to go shopping and get new clothes because he's been wearing the same clothes for a while." Currie also needed to go to the bank and withdraw money because he had no cashflow card, Mr Young said. "He's not very happy, he thinks this is all unfair (that he's) going to arrive in Auckland with dirty clothes and no money. That's a pretty miserable situation. He's quite distraught."
However, Judge Walsh said Currie could not be trusted and should be kept in custody until his flight left. "I don't trust you as far as I can throw you ... you are leaving town, you are not staying here." He had a final warning for Currie. "I don't want to hear that you or your associates (are) putting pressure on the victim, otherwise you can rot in prison till this is heard."
