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Offender Database Mark Hoggart

Mark Dean Hoggart

Alias

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Offences

Choked his girlfriend in Hamilton until she gave a false confession in January 2003
Also stabbed a second victim with some scissors.
Was on parole from a previous crime at the time

Victims

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Offender Affiliations

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Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1984

Current Location

Prison

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to preventive detention in February 2004
A minimum five year non-parole period was imposed
Parole declined April 2008
Had another hearing February 2010

Background
One of the youngest offenders to be sentenced to preventive detention
From a Waikato Times story 20/02/2004
A Hamilton man, who choked his girlfriend until she gave a false confession and then stabbed a second victim with a pair of scissors, has been sentenced to preventive detention. Yesterday in the High Court at Hamilton, Justice Judith Potter said it was only after careful consideration and with reluctance given the comparative youth of Mark Dean Hoggart, 20, that she imposed the sentence which will keep Hoggart in jail for at least five years. He becomes one of New Zealand's youngest people to be sentenced to preventive detention. But the judge also made it clear that it was up to Hoggart to prove he was fit for release, saying his future was in his hands. Hoggart was on parole and living with his 17-year-old victim at the time, sharing a house with his mother and her partner.

On January 25 last year, the young couple returned home after a drinking session at a relative's. An argument ensued after Hoggart called the woman a "slapper" and escalated, with Hoggart accusing his girlfriend of sleeping with his mother's partner. During the fight he threw her against walls and chairs. He grabbed her by the hair, banging it against the wall four or five times, and then put his hands around her neck and began choking her. She believed she was going to die. When she asked him to kill her some other way, he replied "no, I want to do it this way". Hoggart then released her. When the victim started to see black spots she indicated that she had slept with his mother's partner.Hoggart then picked up a pair of scissors and walked into the lounge where he confronted his second victim, first kicking him in the ribs before stabbing him with the scissors. When the man attempted to flee, Hoggart followed, stabbing the victim on the back of the head.

Crown prosecutor Doug Cherry argued preventive detention was not a "crushing" sentence if Hoggart showed remorse and rehabilitated himself. Hoggart's lawyer Gavin Boot said preventive detention was reserved for the worst offenders who appeared before the courts. He argued the charges arose out of a domestic dispute that was no more serious than many the district court heard and that his victims had not been seriously injured. Justice Potter said the offending amounted to serious violence. She decided against imposing a finite term, saying that would not protect the community because it provided insufficient incentive for Hoggart to address his issues. On the charge of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, she sentenced Hoggart to preventive detention, ordering that he serve a minimum period of five years. On the charges of injuring with intent to injure and threatening to kill, she jailed Hoggart for three years on each.

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