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Offender Database Rangi Downs

Rangi Downs

Alias

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Offences

Armed robbery of a New Lynn petrol station in November 2002
Previous robbery convictions and one for indecent assault

Victims

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Offender Affiliations

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Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1957

Current Location

unknown

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to eight years with a nine month cumulative term in March 1996
Sentenced to nine years, reduced to seven on appeal in May 2004
Eligible for parole March 2005

Background
From NZ Herald story May 22 2004
"A three-times convicted robber was sentenced too harshly the last time he offended, the Court of Appeal has ruled. It reduced Rangi downs' jail term from nine years to seven. Downs, 47, was still on parole from a previous robbery when he held up a petrol attendant at gunpoint at New Lynn in 2002. The court said it was a relatively unsophisticated and unplanned robbery, and not a bad case of its kind."
Court of Appeal decision here

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