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Offender Databases Hira Tahitahi

Hira Tahitahi

Alias

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Offences

Abduction for sex, unlawful sexual connection (x2), assault and threatening to kill a 19 year old Hamilton woman in February 2008
Also burglary of another woman stealing electronic items and jewellery valued at $2,000 and a credit card
A number of previous convictions for burglary, shoplifting, perverting the course of justice and unlawfully getting into a motor vehicle

Victims

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Offender Affiliations

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Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1988

Current Location

Unknown

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to 8 years 3 months in June 2008
Later reduced to 6 years 10 months on appeal

Background
From the Waikato Times 07/06/2008
Hira Tahitahi sexually assaulted a teenager near the Claudelands Bridge and then continued his crime spree by breaking into a house to make 13 calls to a phone-sex line. Tahitahi, 20, was jailed for eight years and three months in Hamilton District Court yesterday, including seven years for his attack on the 19-year-old, which Judge Phillip Connell described as degrading and callous.

Tahitahi had earlier admitted charges of abduction for sex, two counts of unlawful sexual connection, threatening to kill, assaulting a woman, and burglary. The court heard how Tahitahi attacked the woman on the Claudelands Bridge about 4.30pm on February 25, putting his arm around her throat and slamming her against a fence. Despite the woman's screams, Tahitahi flipped her over the fence, and on to a vehicle track, where Tahitahi straddled the woman and assaulted and threatened to kill her.

He twice sexually violated her, and when members of the public began to arrive, he tried to pretend the woman was his girlfriend. Tahitahi left the woman with bruising, scratches and cuts. He then broke into a house from which he took electronic items and jewellery worth about $4000 and made one phone call to Whangarei and 13 to a phone-sex line. Judge Connell said there had been lasting consequences for Tahitahi's attack victim. Judge Connell imposed a minimum non-parole period of half of Tahitahi's total sentence.

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