https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/woman-...AT5UXW5P33LRE/
Released prisoner hits Rebel Sport three times, takes cars, burgles and splashes on stolen credit cards
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A woman on a 7-month crime spree came face-to-face with a home owner’s daughter after jumping out the window to avoid being caught.
Still holding the stolen goods, she told the girl, “Sorry, it’s for me and my boyfriend” before running off down the street.
The incident was just one out of 25 that resulted in Roma Lady Te Aho being jailed for three years - a sentence she’s now successfully appealed.
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But none of these were considered her most serious offence when Te Aho ended up in the Napier District Court after pleading guilty to 25 charges, plus a further shoplifting charge from 2021.
udge Collins jailed Te Aho for three years for the raft of offending, which also involved other shoplifting incidents and unlawfully entering or taking cars – once by lifting a staff member’s keys from behind the counter of a restaurant.
However, Te Aho has now managed to get four months taken off that prison sentence by appealing to the High Court over the calculations Judge Collins used in sentencing her.
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At the age of 27, she had a criminal record which ran for 17 pages, mostly for dishonesty offences - shoplifting and theft, burglary and using a document for pecuniary advantage.
She had committed more than 100 crimes while on bail for other offences, and when she offended last year, was on release conditions after being freed from prison in March 2022.
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In first sentencing Te Aho, Judge Collins made no order for reparations and remitted her outstanding fines of $15,273 because she would not have been able to pay them.
Let the scum out & look what happens.. this thing should be put on hard labour to repay all her victims and pay for her keep; then only released on a hefty good behavour & employment bond ;)
The list of lame excuses must run almost as long as it's list of convictions & this is what the taxpayer is having to support ..