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Offender Databases Darrell McLeod

Darrell Shaun McLeod

Alias

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Offences

Rape of a Waikato woman in early 2008
Extensive history of fraud and violence-related offending

Victims

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Offender Affiliations

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Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1963

Current Location

Prison

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to 9 years with a 4 year minimum non-parole period in November 2009
Unsuccessfully appealed this sentence in September 2010

Background
Waikato Times story 12th November 2009
Claims a Waikato woman's children were the target of a criminal gang led her to trust a man who later raped her, Hamilton District Court has been told. In what was described as an "exercise in cynical manipulation", Darrell Shaun McLeod, 46, convinced his victim that she and her daughters were targets of the Mongrel Mob while offering his support and help.

So convincing and persistent was McLeod's ruse that the woman shifted house, believing her family were under constant watch, the court heard. Events culminated in 2008 when the woman travelled with the defendant to Ngaruawahia and was raped by McLeod in the back of his truck. After the rape, McLeod dumped the woman on the side of the road.

Yesterday, McLeod was sentenced to nine years' jail after earlier pleading guilty to a charge of sexual violation by rape. McLeod has since tried, unsuccessfully, to change his guilty plea. He yesterday signalled he would appeal his conviction. The court was told that before the attack, McLeod used a series of lies to manipulate his victim into thinking she and her family were the target of gang members.

She eventually believed that if certain steps were not carried out, including having sex with McLeod, then her family would be harmed. Crown prosecutor Richard Annandale said McLeod had spent most of his adult life in prison, and had an extensive history of fraud and violence-related offending. Defence counsel Jonathan Temm said McLeod maintained the sex was consensual.

In sentencing McLeod, Judge Arthur Tompkins said the defendant's attempts to delay the sentencing had been traumatic for his victim. The judge said McLeod's action were premeditated and created a "climate of fear" which bordered on terror for the victim. McLeod continued to show a lack of remorse or insight, the judge said, and was assessed at high risk of reoffending.

From the Soutland times April 2006
Darrell Shaun McLeod, 42, of Gore was convicted and discharged on four charges of fraud amounting to $3450 between August and December 2005.

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