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Michael Neil Goodman

Alias

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Offences

Serious assault on Carl Holmes at Otatara in October 2005

Victims

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Offender Affiliations

Eifion Davies
Aaron Tahi-Crown

Gang affiliations

Road Knights

Age

Born 1983

Current Location

unknown

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to 20 months imprisonment February 2006
Released statutorily August 2006

Background
From the Southland Times 30/08/2006
A MAN who denied taking part in a group beating that left the victim unconscious in his own driveway was sent to jail for two years by Invercargill District Court Judge Kevin Phillips yesterday. Aaron Leslie Tahi Crown, 24, was the third man to be sentenced for the serious assault of Carl Holmes at Otatara in October last year. Michael Goodman and Eifion Davies had already been sentenced to 20 months and 24 months, respectively, for their parts in the assault The three men pulled Mr Holmes from his friend's vehicle to punch, knee, kick and stomp him unconscious. Crown maintained throughout his trial he did not know the attack was going to happen and had only been there out of curiosity.

Davies' sentence was reduced from three years jail to two years jail by High Court Justice Hansen earlier this year. Defence lawyer Bill Dawkins had argued it had been excessive when compared with other assault sentences and a court of appeal tariff case. In reaching his decision yesterday, Judge Phillips commented that although Crown was found guilty of injuring with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, in the interests of parity he had to compare Crown's culpability and punishment to Davies and Goodman's punishment under lesser charges. He also questioned whether they should have been offered lesser charges to plea to.

From the Southland Times 18/02/2006
HARSHER jail sentences were needed to curb violent assaults in Invercargill, the father of an young man beaten up in October said yesterday.Otatara man Rex Holmes said he was annoyed to read in The Southland Times yesterday that one of the men who admitted the assault was appealing for a lesser sentence. On Thursday in the High Court at Invercargill, Justice Hansen heard an appeal from defence counsel Bill Dawkins on the three-year jail term handed out to Eifion Jeffrey Davies for the October assault. With two other men, police said Davies had dragged Mr Holmes' son from his vehicle and beaten him unconscious.

During the appeal, Mr Dawkins said the sentence was more severe than other sentences handed out recently in Invercargill for similar types of offences. He also claimed the victim had not suffered any lasting injuries and no weapons had been involved. Mr Holmes said his son had had his teeth kicked in with steel- capped boots and was still taking medication for his injuries. "These mongrels need to be put in their place ... I'm not afraid to stand up (to them)." His son was frightened to go out in public because he felt threatened, Mr Holmes said. "He's too intimidated to go up town on a Friday or Saturday night." A group of Road Knights "wannabes" had targeted his son because he allegedly "narked" on the group, he said.

"I don't think the Road Knights actually like this stuff. They're not very happy because they don't like the publicity. "These kids are getting out of control. They think they can get away with murder." Vigilantes would take the law into their own hands if the police and courts didn't deal appropriately with such offenders, Mr Holmes said. Senior sergeant Neil Cruickshank, of Invercargill, said gangs of youths surfaced from time to time but did not appear to be particularly well organised. "They can get quite violent. It's just cowardice really but that's the way they operate," he said. One of the problems in dealing with group assaults was that victims often did not want to talk to the police, he said.

An example of this occurred early on Friday morning in Don St . According to a witness, an individual was beaten up by four others after being chased from Esk St . The witness, who intervened to stop the assault, said the four involved ran off after he intervened. "They sort of pulled him to the ground and started kicking his head in. I was absolutely disgusted by it," he said. Mr Cruickshank said he did not believe a complaint had been laid by the victim. A St John Ambulance spokesman said an 18-year-old man was taken to Southland Hospital with minor injuries after the incident.

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