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Offender Database Taffy Hotene

Taffy Hotene (deceased)

Alias

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Offences

By 15 he was in court for theft, and again before he was 16.
He appeared for his first attempted rape of a woman at knifepoint at 17.
He was jailed for just 15 months.
As soon as he was out he walked into the home of a married woman with her two and a half year old daughter and ten month old baby, and attempted to rape her, holding a knife to the baby's head.
he was imprisoned for four years.
As soon as he was released, he then attacked three women in Wanganui, in a four day reign of terror. One of them he succeeded in raping. All of them were women minding shops on their own. Each attack was reasonably well planned, and he took precautions such as discarding his clothes after each attack and taking measures to throw police dogs off his trail.
He was sentence to 12 years in prison for these three attacks, paroled in 8, and within weeks raped and killed Kylie Jones.

Victims

Kylie Jones
Vivienne Matoe

Offender Affiliations

Paul Dally
Notoriously on a anti-violence course with Paul Dally while they were both in prison.

Gang affiliations

Black Power

Age

Born 1971

Current Location

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Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to 18 years minimum without parole in October 2000
Under preventive detention

Background
See this page for a full background.

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