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Offender Databases Wayne Jarden

Wayne Robert Jarden

Alias

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Offences

Rape and attack of a 27-year-old St Albans, Christchurch woman in February 1988
Rape and attack of a 90 year old Shirley, Christchurch woman in April 1996
Previous crimnal record

Victims

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Offender Affiliations

Brother of Kevin Jarden

Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1958

Current Location

Prison

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to fifteen years in April 2009
Appealed this in August 2009 but the appeal was thankfully unsuccessful

Background
TV3 story here
Christchurch Court News story here

The Press, Christchurch , August 21st, 2009
A convicted sex offender has lost his appeal against a 15-year jail term for two Christchurch home-invasion rapes. Wayne Robert Jarden was jailed in April after pleading guilty to attacks in 1988 and 1996.

He appealed against the sentence on the grounds it was excessive and that the reduction for his guilty pleas was miscalculated. In a Court of Appeal decision released yesterday, Justice Panckhurst said there could be "no criticism" of the sentence imposed. The crimes were "extremely serious", and "it was correct to assess the crimes of rape separately and on a standalone basis".

In the first attack, Jarden broke into a house at night and raped a woman after tying her to a table with strips of cloth he had cut from a duvet on the washing line. In the second attack, he pushed his way into a 90-year-old woman's house and overpowered and raped her..

The Press, Monday, 15th December 2008
A Christchurch man today pleaded guilty to two historical rapes, including a sex attack on a 90-year-old woman.

Wayne Robert Jarden, 50, pleaded guilty in Christchurch District Court to charges of aggravated burglary and rape relating to a 1988 attack on a 27-year-old St Albans woman, and to charges of aggravated burglary and rape relating to a 1996 attack on a 90-year-old Shirley woman. Jarden was remanded in custody for sentencing on April 3, pending the completion of psychiatric reports.

Prosecutor Kerryn Beaton indicated the Crown may apply for a sentence of preventive detention - an open-ended sentence reserved for the most serious offenders. Jarden's brother Kevin Moana Jarden was sentenced to preventive detention in March 2004 for repeatedly raping two young girls. His 40-year criminal record lists 88 convictions including indecently assaulting a woman and indecent exposure.

Since then, Kevin Jarden has also been convicted of an historic rape from 1988, also involving sexual violation and burglary. He was convicted from DNA evidence in 2006, in a two-day trial where the facts were eerily similar to the offences admitted by his brother Wayne today. Miss Beaton told the court that just before midnight on February 2, 1988, Wayne Jarden entered the yard of a St Albans address and spent a long time prowling, looking in windows, and preparing for the attack.

The partner of the 27-year-old victim was working that night, and a flatmate was also out. Wearing stockings over his head, Jarden woke the victim up at knifepoint, telling her, "I want your dope, that's all I want." He told her to shut up or he would slit her throat. He then gagged her and walked her to the dining room where he tied her down and raped her. Jarden was identified as the offender in January 2008 after DNA testing of a semen stain on the underpants the victim had put on after the attack.

About 6.30pm on April 28, 1996, Jarden went to a Shirley cul-de-sac where the 90-year-old victim of the second attack lived alone in a council flat. When she answered the door, he said, "I'm your grandson", before pushing his way in and throwing the victim on to her bed. Her glasses and hearing aid were dislodged, and Jarden took her false teeth out after she screamed. He then raped her while she pleaded for him to leave her alone. "Don't tell the police," Jarden told her, when he had finished.

The victim received abrasions and bruising, and lacerations to her genitals. She died about three years after the attack. Jarden was identified as the attacker by DNA testing in January 2008. He denied the facts, but pleaded guilty today. He is a single man, employed as a labourer, and he has a criminal record.

Defence counsel Tony Garrett said four matters in the Crown's summary of facts were not accepted by Jarden, and would be clarified at the sentencing.

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