R v Hapi - [1995] 1 NZLR 257

Criminal law — Sentence — Preventive detention — Minimum period of imprisonment before parole — Sexual violation and wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm — Seventy-eight-year-old victim stabbed over 20 times and sexually violated — Accused with extensive criminal record sentenced to preventive detention with minimum period of 15 years' imprisonment before parole — Whether manifestly excessive — Criminal Justice Act 1985, s 80.