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Leo Darin Goodwin

Alias

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Offences

Abducted and sexually assaulted a 15 year old Huntly girl in December 2004
Raped and bludgeoned a 22 year old woman in Te Aroha in September 1996
He was imprisioned twice for sexual assault in Australia,
Firstly in the Inner West of Sydney when he threatened a woman with a knife and then assaulted her, he was imprisoned for 18 months and placed on parole.
While on parole he then sexually assualted another woman and was sentenced to a further year, and was then again released on parole.

Victims

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Offender Affiliations

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Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1971

Current Location

Prison

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to 15 years with automatic parole after 10 years in December 1996
Reduced to 12 years with automatic parole after 8 years on appeal
Released September 2004
Sentenced to preventive detention with 9 year minimum non-parole period in February 2006
Unsuccessfully appealed this sentence in December 2006

Background
NZ Herald story here
An in depth background story here
From NZ Herald story 7th December 1996

A Waikato man who smashed a woman with a wrench was jailed for 15 years yesterday. In the High Court at Hamilton Justice Hammond said the "brutal totally unprovoked attack" by Leo Darin Goodwin came only after two years after he was jailed for a "very bad sexual attack" in Australia.

Goodwin, aged 25, a Morrinsville forecourt attendant, followed the woman out of a Te Aroha rugby club prize giving about 2am on September 8. He took a wrench out of the toolkit in his car, followed the 22-year-old woman, struck her from behind on the back of the head and dragged her into a park. When she struggled he punched her several times and bashed her again with the wrench, breaking her nose, before raping her.

In the Australia case Goodwin attacked a woman with a knife ( which we have been advised had no blade ) while trying to have sex with her. Justice Hammond declined to impose a sentence of preventive detention which would have put Goodwin behind bars indefinitely. That sentence was "reserved for beyond redemption." Earlier Goodwin’s lawyer, Mr Herman Roose said Goodwin had shown remorse.

Goodwin was also sentenced to a concurrent term of three years jail on a charge of rendering the woman incapable of resisting. He had pleaded guilty to charges he will not be eligible for parole after 10 years. The victim who was in court for the sentencing, said later she was pleased with the length of the sentence. "It’s a good result, I don’t think any sentence is long enough, but you’ve got to stick to the rules."

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