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Offender Database Stacy Hollyman

Stacy Dean Hollyman

Alias

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Offences

Murdered Margaret Russell in Havelock North, Hastings on 6th November 1991
Used drugs and committed inappropriate sexual conduct while on parole in 2005

Victims

Margaret Russell

Offender Affiliations

None known

Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1976

Current Location

At large

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to life with parole after 10 years in April 1992
Paroled late 2003
Has reoffended since and was back in custody
Parole declined November 2009
Reparoled December 2011

Background
Hawkes Bay Today story here
Murdered the victim in her own home.
NZ Herald story here
From a Christchurch Press story May 2005
Two convicted murderers have been sentenced to community work for breaching their life parole while living in central Christchurch. Ziggy Stardust Buckeridge, 43, and Stacy Dean Hollyman, 28, had both been released from jail to live at the Salisbury Foundation in St Albans when they failed a drugs test.

Buckeridge was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1992 for the murder of 14-year-old Julie Sands after they had walked together to the Ashley River, near Rangiora. Buckeridge cut the child's throat and then buried her near the river.

Hollyman was a 15-year-old Hastings schoolboy when he was sentenced to life imprisonment for stabbing to death his remedial reading teacher, Margaret Russell, in the bedroom of her Havelock North home. The killing in November 1991 was described at his trial as a "blind, unthinking frenzy" but the High Court jury in Napier rejected Hollyman's claim of manslaughter and found him guilty of murder.

Sergeant Jeff Kay, prosecuting, said their conditions of parole included that they remain drug-free but a urine test showed each had used cannabis. Phillip Allan, for Buckeridge, said "old matters in the past" had re-emerged for his client, who sought a meeting with a psychologist but resorted to self-medicating with cannabis in the meantime.

"He now has an appointment with a psychologist this time next week. He also has a drug and alcohol assessment and is doing Narcotics Anonymous," he said. Stephen Hembrow, for Hollyman, said his client considered himself fortunate to be paroled to the Salisbury Street foundation after a long time in jail.

Hollyman sought a fine instead of community work because he "did not wish to get back into old associations", the court heard. Judge Colin Doherty sentenced each to 40 hours community work. He described Hollyman's breach as "a slip rather than any long term behaviour... but it's an important slip for all that".

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