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Offender Databases Jason Gideon

Jason Samuel Gideon

Alias

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Offences

Assault, miscellaneous burglaries, possessing instruments for burglary, car conversion, unlawfully taking motor vehicles, driving while disqualified, interfering with and getting into motor vehicles, using documents to defraud, theft, possession of a knife, breach of release conditions and breach of bail, more than 80 convictions

Victims

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Offender Affiliations

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Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1975

Current Location

unknown

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced for 2 years 9 months in October 2004

Background
Court of Appeal decision is here
According to the probation officer he displayed a lack of insight into the offending and represents a very high risk of reoffending.

From the Press, Christchurch , Oct 15, 2004
A crime rampage by drug-addicted Jason Samuel Gideon included thefts from students. Their study notes were dumped.

Anyone who was ever a student could identify with the frustration and inconvenience arising from the loss of items useless to anyone else, said Christchurch District Court Judge Graeme Noble yesterday.

Gideon was jailed for 23 months after admitting four counts of using documents to defraud, five of theft, possessing instruments for burglary, breaching bail, driving while disqualified and unlawfully taking a car. In July Gideon went on a crime spree.

Posing as a university student, he stole three student bags, dumped the notes they contained, but kept three credit cards which he used to buy a number of airfares. At a backpackers' hostel he stole a bag from a tourist, and in Wellington got into the deputy principal's office at a high school, taking a briefcase and contents.

He was also charged with unlawfully taking a rental car. On arrest he was found with burglary tools. A total of $4557 reparation was claimed but such an order would only raise false hopes, the judge said. "This was a series of nasty and egocentric offences against the community generally." They were "entirely in character" for Gideon, who had offended over 14 years, with 80 previous convictions relating to dishonesty, he said.

Lawyer Liz Bulger asked the judge to take into account Gideon's willingness to pay reparation if he could. He was trying to get money together to service a serious drug addiction. Gideon claimed to be sick of going to jail, and there seemed some motivation to change, she said. The judge refused to grant a request for home detention, given the seriousness and Gideon's personal circumstances.

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