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Offender Database Murray Robertson

Murray Edward Thomas Robertson

Alias

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Offences

Rape, sexual violation and unlawful detainment in South Auckland in March 1995
Sexual violation by unlawful sexual connection in Paeroa in January 2001
A string of previous convictions including rape of a 17 year old girl in 1983, indecent assault in 1982, male assaults female in 1978, a serious violent offence in 1977, eight burglaries in 1998

Victims

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Offender Affiliations

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Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1952

Current Location

Prison

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to 15 years with a 10 year minimum non-parole period in July 2002

Background
See Herald story here
From the Waikato Times July 27th 2002
An Auckland man has been jailed for 15 years for sexually violating a hitchhiker and another women he picked up in his car. In the Hamilton District Court on Wednesday, Murray Robertson, a 50-year-old unemployed father of three from Manurewa, was sentenced on three charges of sexual violation and one charge of kidnapping.

The court heard how on January 11 last year Robertson picked up a 25-year-old woman who was hitch-hiking from Hamilton to Paeroa. Robertson offered to take the woman to Paeroa but instead drove her to a motel in Katikati where he made sexual advances on her. The woman refused and left the motel but Robertson followed her, apologised, and said he would take her to Paeroa. He then drove her to a secluded location where he sexually violated her.

The other charges related to Robertson picking up a confused and intoxicated women near the Auckland police station on March 13, 1995. The court heard how the women was on medication and had been drinking earlier in the night and probably thought she knew Robertson. Robertson took the woman to Clevedon and raped and sexually violated her. Judge Robert Spear said the most disturbing feature of the case was Robertson's criminal history which dated back to 1967 and included the rape of a 17-year-old girl. He ordered that the minimum non-parole period be 10 years.

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