escalating violence in our community Become a member of the Sensible Sentencing Trust

Mouseover links for full page descriptions

Offender Databases Michael Holdem

Michael Scott Holdem

Alias

Michael Scott Rodger

Offences

Unlawful sexual intercourse with and prostitution of a 14 year old girl in Christchurch in 1999 after getting her hooked on morphine.
Also assaulted and committed sexual indecencies on an 87 year old Christchurch woman in 1995
Most recent offences include receiving a car, receiving a laptop, receiving number plates from another car, unlawful possession of a pistol, possession of cannabis, possession of a pipe and intentional damage
Recently convicted for conspiracy to supply class C drugs and convicted of conspiracy to supply a class A drug (Methamphetamine).

Victims

.

Offender Affiliations

Gary Isherwood

Gang affiliations

Road Knights (no longer affiliated)

Age

Born February 1977

Current Location

Prison

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to eight years in December 1999
Paroled October 2006, reoffended soon after
Sentenced to another two years three months in March 2008
Sentenced to a three year cumulative term in October 2009

Background
NZ Herald story here
From that story
The charge faced by Wilson arose from two men, Gary Isherwood and Michael Holdem, admitting that they had deliberately turned the schoolgirl into a drug addict. They had then forced the schoolgirl into a life of prostitution so she could pay them for her twice-a-day morphine injection. Isherwood and Holdem are now both serving eight-year prison sentences.

From the Evening Post 7th March 2000
One of the men who introduced a 14-year-old girl to morphine use and prostitution has failed in a bid to overturn his eight-year jail term. Michael Scott Holdem, of Christchurch, was refused legal aid for his appeal against sentence so the Court of Appeal decided the case on the basis of written submissions filed for him. The court's judgment last week said the girl developed hepatitis C as a result of Holdem's and another man's activities. Holdem pleaded guilty to charges of living off the earnings of prostitution, having sex with a girl under 16, and administering morphine. Justice Blanchard said Holdem maintained he'd had a secondary role but the judge was entitled to the view that it was a "team effort".

In 1995, Holdem (aged 18 years) was sentenced in the Christchurch Courts to 3 years for assaulting an 87 year old lady in here home. Whilst in prison (1995 in Rolleston Prison), he was charged with attempted rape of this lady. This charge was withdrawn and he pleaded guilty to a charge of indecent assault on her.

---

Corrections and Additional Information
We endeavour to make this database as accurate as possible, but we are at the mercy of whatever information we can find in various online and offline archives. We rely on the public - that is, people like you - to fill in the gaps that we cannot. If you wish to submit additional information or a correction to this file CLICK HERE . Privacy: Trust policy is that all sources are treated as strictly confidential unless we are explicitly told otherwise. If you wish to see a file removed from this database certain conditions must be met by the offender set out HERE Note that this does NOT apply for those that are the primary offender in a murder, rape, or any sexual offending involving minors. We do not enter into correspondence regarding the guilt/innocence of offenders. Such correspondence is not responded to, especially if the offender concerned has a number of prior convictions

Back to Top