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Offender Databases Shane Matenga

Shane Huia Matenga

Alias

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Offences

Rape and sodomisation of a Tauranga woman in January 2007

Victims

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Offender Affiliations

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Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1962

Current Location

Prison

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to 8 years 6 months with a 5 year non-parole period in November 2007
Convictions were quashed by the Supreme Court in October 2008, after an earlier bid to the Court of Appeal was declined in July 2008.
Found guilty again upon retrial in October 2009
To be resentenced December 2009

Background
From this Rotorua Daily Post story
SHANE Matenga, the Matua man who raped and sodomised a Bay woman with intellectual difficulties after she invited him in for a cup of tea, has been jailed for eight- and-a-half years. Matenga, 45, was sentenced in Tauranga District Court yesterday after being found guilty at a jury trial last month and will have to serve a five-year minimum non- parole period.

The jury was told that at about 8am on January 5, Matenga's victim saw him knocking at her neighbour's door and offered him a cup of tea at her house while he waited for the man to wake up. But as she turned to take the cups out of the cupboard, Matenga locked the door, began touching her and kissing her, then pushed her into the bedroom and raped her.

Despite the woman's struggles and repeatedly telling him to stop, Matenga sodomised her, then raped her again, dressed and left. During her ordeal the woman hugged her teddy bear for comfort. Two neighbours heard wailing and crying and found the woman in a distressed state. When police arrived she had barricaded herself in her bedroom and would not come out until a female officer was called.

Prior to his sentence being handed down, Matenga wept as he listened to his sister Saphire Pohatu read out a letter of support to Judge Christopher Harding on behalf of her brother's whanau and his friends. She wanted to paint a picture of the man they all knew, she told the judge. Ms Pohatu said among her brother's core values was being polite and respectful to women.

"These charges and his conviction have come as a absolute shock to our family." Judge Harding told Matenga that a non- parole period was warranted because his offending was beyond the norm in its seriousness and because he was on parole at the time.

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