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Offender Databases Beaudene Brady

Beaudene Karepa Kariatana Brady

Alias

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Offences

Rape of a 51 year old woman after he burst into her home in September 2001
After being paroled he sexually violated an 18 year old Kawerau man in October 2007
Had a substantial history of violence, burglary, arson etc etc

Victims

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Offender Affiliations

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Gang affiliations

Mongrel Mob

Age

Born 1984

Current Location

Prison

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to 9 years before July 2002
Sentenced to 13 years in September 2008
Eligible for parole after 8 years

Background
From the Sunday News June 2008
A Convicted rapist who sodomised a teenage male had been released by the Parole Board three weeks earlier, despite it acknowledging a risk he would re-offend. The board last night stood by its decision to free Beaudene Karepa Kariatana Brady, 23, six years into a nine-year sentence for the rape of a 51-year-old woman who lived alone.

The board was forced to release Brady after he completed two-thirds of his sentence even though it said his "propensity for violence and sexual offending" had "not been addressed" but Corrections could have applied to it asking for the prisoner to complete his full sentence. Just 25 days after he was released from Wanganui Prison, under a raft of conditions, Brady bashed and sexually violated his victim, 18, in their Bay of Plenty home town of Kawerau.

The offence was a short distance from Brady's aunt's house, to which he was paroled. Brady met his victim who has since fled Kawerau at a Shell service station just before 2am on October 12 last year and asked him join him on the walk home. Brady suggested a "shortcut". At an empty section he punched his victim in the head several times before pinning him to the ground. When the teenager whose name is automatically suppressed regained consciousness, he was being raped. At last week's Rotorua High Court trial, defence lawyer Roger Gowing maintained the pair's "chance meeting" resulted in a discussion "of a sexual nature" and consensual, oral sex followed.

And the jury heard that when Brady was interrogated by detectives a day after the incident, he admitted having intercourse with the teenager but insisted it was "consensual". He maintained "having sex with a man is not something I like". But Brady was found guilty of sexual violation and remanded in custody for sentencing. Crown prosecutor Duncan McWilliam urged Justice Rodney Hansen to consider preventive detention.

The mother of the teenage victim told Sunday News of her son stumbling home to tell her: "Mum, I've been raped." She was relieved her son had the "courage" to tell her what had happened. This case followed other high-profile gaffes by the Parole Board and had sparked calls from the family of Karl Kuchenbecker, who was murdered by Graeme Burton in 2007, for heads to roll. Burton was on parole when he murdered. Like Brady, he had a history of violence.

"I don't think we should have parole. If you do the crime then you should do the time," said Kuchenbecker's father, Paul. "People shouldn't be tolerating this parole is failing." The National Party's law and order spokesman Simon Power echoed Kuchenbecker's sentiments, saying the government had a "preoccupation with legislation designed to deal with the prison population" which went ahead of public safety.

"Over the last three years we have seen a series of events resulting from non-custodial arrangements which have had some shocking results." A board spokeswoman said only Corrections could have prevented Brady re-offending by making an application to it under the Criminal Justice Act to retain him in custody.

In response, Corrections' community probation and psychological services regional manager, Heather Mackie, issued a statement: "The offender was assessed and it was determined that he did not meet the required legal threshold" for the application, but was considered "at high risk of further offending". Asked for the reasons Brady's sexual offending had not been addressed in prison, Mackie said "no suitable intensive rehabilitation programmes that the offender was eligible to attend" were available. That has since changed.

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