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Timothy Irving

Alias

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Offences

Possessing a weapon, aggravated burglary, assault, theft (x2), demanding with menaces with intent to steal, taking a vehicle and assaulting a constable, breach of protection order etc etc etc
An extensive and varied criminal history

Victims

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Offender Affiliations

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Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1962

Current Location

Prison

Parole/Release Dates

Was sentenced to 7 years in June 1996
Sentence to be updated

Background
NZ Herald story here
Scoop story here
Irving, a 47-year-old Maori, was a prolific offender with an extensive and varied criminal history, said Sergeant Gael Mockford of Te Awamutu police. He was wanted on a range of matters including a number of fraud charges, contravening a protection order and failure to answer bail. Irving was from Kihikihi but could be in Te Awamutu, Hamilton or elsewhere in the Waikato, she said.

From the Waikato Times 20th June 1996
One of Waikato's most notorious police custody escapers, Timothy Irving, was jailed today for seven years on a string of charges including three escapes. Irving, 26, an eight-time escaper who has been compared to jailbreakers George Wilder and Simon Kerr, told police he broke out of court and police custody because he wanted to prove he could after he was told he couldn't.

In the High Court at Hamilton today Irving muttered "I'll kick your face in too, judge," as he was led handcuffed to a prison officer from the dock. Irving, who stood with a protruding tongue and frowned as he was sentenced, had earlier pleaded guilty to escaping three times, possessing a weapon, aggravated burglary, assault, two thefts, demanding with menaces with intent to steal, taking a vehicle and assaulting a constable.

Crown prosecutor Quentin Almao said Iriving escaped the first of three times by pointing a knife at a constable when he was arrested in Te Awamutu in January because police believed he had broken his curfew. Two days later, as police tried to drive him from the Hamilton police station to the courts opposite, he got away again by diving under the prisoners' van and clinging to the back as it drove out.

He was found in April in Auckland with a stolen ute. In Hamilton he was the instigator of a court cell breakout in April when he and four others smashed a series of glass panels and doors and ran out of the district court. Defence lawyer Michael McIvor said Irving, a Kihikihi father of three, had caused no injury during his Te Awamutu escape although he was carrying a knife. He downplayed Irving's escapes, saying they were acts of bravado rather than prison escapes which were more serious.

Mr McIvor said Irving believed the media had made a feast of Irving's escapades and had compared him to jailbreakers George Wilder and Simon Kerr. Justice Hammond said Irving's escapades had cost police a lot of time and money. In addition, Irving, who had a 10-page computer list of previous offences, had to be shown police and courts had to be able to enforce the law without being impeded by escapes.

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