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Dane Henry

Alias

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Offences

Aggravated robbery of a Taupo bar with an imitation pistol in May 2005

Victims

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Offender Affiliations

Tamehana Henry-Ormsby
Morehu Williams

Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1985

Current Location

Unknown

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to 4 years 9 months with a 2 year 4 month non-parole period in July 2005

Background
From the Dominion Post 1st August 2005
Three men have been sent to prison for holding up a Taupo lakefront bar with an imitation pistol. In Rotorua District Court last week, Judge Russell Callender sentenced Tamehana Henry-Ormsby, 21, unemployed, Dane Henry, 20, unemployed, and Morehu Karaitiana Williams, 21, a bushman, to four years and nine months' prison with a minimum non-parole period of two years and four months. The three men, all from Taupo, had pleaded guilty to the aggravated robbery of the Inn Over The Lake bar on May 19.

Williams had also admitted wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm. The three men hatched a plan to rob the bar after playing pool there earlier in the evening. They left and returned an hour later armed with an imitation pistol and knife and robbed two patrons and the bar owner of a total of $190. The bar owner suffered serious eye injuries when he tried to stop them. Williams told the bar owner he would stick the knife in his neck if he did not hand over any money. The three were caught a short time later by police.

Judge Callender told the court the trio's plan to rob the bar "was premeditated but not on the scale of a military operation by any means". "Fuelled on drugs and alcohol you thought you were the big guys, the major gangsters," Judge Callender said. "It was not the best planned robbery . . . not the crime of the century. Your major league crime produced you with $190. You should think closely of this when you are in prison." A fourth person, Alix Marion Powell, 19, unemployed of Taupo, has also been charged with aggravated robbery and is due to appear in Taupo District Court for a depositions hearing on August 18.

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