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Glen Timothy Lewis Oakley

Alias

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Offences

Assaulted his de facto partner with a machete in June 2005 in Cromwell

Victims

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Offender Affiliations

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Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1976

Current Location

At large

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to nine months assault with a machete
Sentenced to four months for threatening to kill
Sentenced for two months for possessing the machete
Sentences to be served concurrently, all imposed in September 2005
Released February 2006

Background
From Otago Daily Times September 17th 2005
A Cromwell man who lunged at his de facto partner with a machete which he then used to damage the woman’s house and a baby stroller has been jailed for nine months. What Glen Timothy Lewis Oakley (29), did in the early hours of June 7 was particularly serious because of the amount of fear caused to the complainant, Judge Gary MacAskill said. The woman thought she was going to have her head cut off, the judge told Oakley at sentencing in the Dunedin District Court yesterday. It was acknowledged, as submitted by counsel Russell Checketts, that although she was terrified and her house and the baby stroller were damaged, the woman was never actually touched by Oakley, Judge MacAskill said.

And while threats were made against two other people, they were in Alexandra, not in Cromwell, and knew nothing of the threats until told later by the complainant. Mr Checketts said Oakley was remorseful about his behaviour and, having seen the complainant, Rachael Day, giving her evidence before he pleaded guilty, realised she was terrified. The court earlier heard Oakley became upset after the complainant told him she was leaving him. He retrieved a machete he used to slice through one side of a door before approaching Ms Day, raising the machete as if to strike her, then lunging towards her and partly swinging it at her several times.

He told her he was going to "renovate the house with the machete" and chopped through two walls and damaged a wood bin and the baby stroller. Oakley then said he was going to “chop up” some of Ms Day’s friends and the police and told her "this is what happens when you play too much Grand Theft Auto" — a violent X-box game. When spoken to later, he said he had a poor recollection of events, that he had gone to get the machete to remove it but, once it was in his hand, started using it. Oakley’s mental health problems meant there was an element of diminished responsibility, Judge MacAskill said. If he stopped taking his medication, he was at risk of offending and, on this occasion, he had gambled away the money which should have been used for more prescription drugs.

The likelihood of re-offending would be reduced if Oakley addressed his gambling problem, the judge said, sentencing him to nine months jail for the assault with the machete. Special release conditions, effective until six months after the end of the sentence, require the defendant to undergo gambling and anger management assessment, counselling, treatment and education as well as any other recommended assessments and programmes. Concurrent with the nine-month term, Oakley was given two concurrent four-month sentences on the charges of threatening to kill and two months for unlawfully possessing the

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