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Renae Toru John Konui

Alias

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Offences

Repeatedly stabbed an Invercargill man with intent to do grievous bodily harm in January 2007
Has many other convictions for assault, injuring with intent, theft, unlawfully taking a vehicle, drink driving, driving while disqualified, resisting police, offensive behaviour, disorderly behaviour, disorderly behaviour likely to cause violence, intentional damage and breaching prison release conditions

Victims

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Offender Affiliations

Tane Matika
Shea Eastlake

Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1985

Current Location

Prison

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to 8 years 3 months in December 2007
Minimum sentence of 5 years later reduced to 4 years on appeal

Background
From the Southland Times 21/12/2007
AN INVERCARGILL judge has condemned a spate of knife attack crimes in the city -- including one assault in which a man was stabbed multiple times in the back. During the sentencing yesterday of Invercargill man Renae Toru John Konui, Judge Kevin Phillips warned offenders: "This type of offending using knives is becoming prevalent, there has to be a strong denouncement" . Konui was sentenced to eight years and three months' jail for stabbing a man in the back three times and stabbing him once more when he fell to the ground outside a Tweed St flat.

His sentence included a non-parole period of five years. Judge Phillips said he was required to protect the community from Konui and others who used knives in violence. "I need to denounce this type of wanton violence in our city and deter people from bringing knives in situations such as this." The judge earlier said several people had recently appeared before him where knives had been used in the course of retaliation or in a violent response. "I wonder what has to be brought home to people in this community that the use of knives in this way can only cause disasters. Sentencings of imprisonment seems to have had little impact because it keeps occurring."

The court was told Konui was at a party in Tweed St on January 7 when the victim punched another man and knocked him to the floor. The victim was then escorted outside and got into a fight with another man. Konui was watching the melee unfold, the judge said. "You went to a drawer in the kitchen of the flat and took a large black handled knife out, walked down the driveway, approached the victim from behind and stabbed him three times in the back and around the head. He fell to the ground, thinking he had been punched by someone, and you stabbed him again in the lower back." Konui then told others at the party he hated bullies and that is why he had stabbed him, the court was told. The victim suffered a punctured lung, stab wounds to his back, lacerations to his head and a cut to the lower left side of his throat.

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