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Christopher George

Alias

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Offences

Attempted murder of his ex-lover in Te Awamutu in 1997

Victims

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Offender Affiliations

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Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1961

Current Location

Unknown

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to 5 years 6 months in June 1998

Background
From Waikato Times story 11th June 1998
A Waikato man has been sentenced to five and-a-half years' jail for trying to kill his former lover with a hammer. Justice Laurenson sentenced Christopher George, 37, of Taupiri, who worked with the intellectually disabled. "It is clear to me that you were extremely jealous and upset at the prospect of her going out with other men," the judge told George in the High Court in Auckland. Last month, a jury in the High Court at Hamilton found George guilty of attempted murder. Defence counsel Louis Bidois told the court George had suffered a conflict of emotion at the time, and rational thought had gone out of his mind.

Wendy Andrews, for the Crown, said the woman had stood no chance. After the couple broke up, George went to the woman's house in Te Awamutu, let himself in and smashed her several times on the head with a hammer, fracturing her skull. A male friend who was with her at the time fled to get help. Justice Laurenson said the jury was perfectly correct to reject a claim of self-defence at George's trial. Though it was possible George might not have known initially that the woman was home, the element of premeditation in his obtaining a hammer from the shed could not be ignored. In sentencing, Justice Laurenson said he had taken into account George's worthwhile contribution to the community.

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