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Offender Databases Wattie Kahu

Wattie Kahu

Alias

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Offences

Using a firearm against police to resist arrest, assault on his partner and escaping custody in March 2007
Also 58 previous convictions, 6 involve threatened use or possession of firearms, 18 involve the use or threatened use or provision of offensive weapons other than firearms, relate to the use of firearms or weapons to resist arrest in 1982, 1988 and 1994, multiple burglaries, assault on police, assault on a person assisting the police also kidnapping, firearm, aggravated burglary and related offending in 1982, kidnapping (x3), home invasion, burglary and theft in October 1983, unlawfully in a building, threatening to kill/do grievous bodily harm, possession of an offensive weapon and aggravated assault in October 1986, using firearms to resist arrest, burglary, assaulting a person with a stabbing/cutting instrument (x3) and common assault, in the mid 1990s assaulting a person with a stabbing/cutting instrument (x3), aggravated assault (stabbing/cutting weapon), wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, breaking and entering, kidnapping, theft and threatening to kill or do grievous bodily harm etc etc

Victims

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Offender Affiliations

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Gang affiliations

Black Power

Age

Born 1966

Current Location

Prison

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to 8 years 10 months in March 1988
Sentenced to 12 and a half years in October 1996
Paroled October 2006, recalled to prison February 2007
Sentenced to just 6 years with a 4 year minimum non-parole period in October 2009

Background
Information from documents supplied by the Wanganui High Court

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