MOB MOB MOB MOGREL MOB MOB MOB MOGREL CLOSED TO KILLING AND ASAL OF THE HAWKE’S BAY

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The two friends, under the age of 20, came to Rotorua on February 24 last year to celebrate a birthday.

Judge Hollister-Jones said that the pair spent the night at different units in Rotorua, then one of them left with someone else.

The other woman went from the center of Rotorua city back to her friend’s parked car, but she realized she couldn’t drive her because it was a manual transmission.

When Kennedy and a female associate got up next to her, she asked for help to move the car somewhere safer as she was planning to sleep in it.

Kennedy’s associate drove the vehicle to government gardens, and at 2.35 in the morning, the trio drove to McDonald’s.

The visitor ordered the food and then asked Kennedy the car keys.

But Kennedy refused, asking him what he could give to recover his keys. He started crying, but he said to “shut up.”

Kennedy said, “You were bleeding red now,” whom Judge Hollister-Jones said he referred to Kennedy being a member of Mongrel Mob.

It was held in the vehicle for the next four hours, despite the fact that he told them they could keep the car if I leave it.

He tried to escape, but Kennedy stopped repeatedly, raising it in the head, and his associate would have put the child lock on the back seat.

After visits to a house, then an ATM, where the victim was forced to withdraw $ 120, was led to another property.

Judge Hollister-Jones said that Kennedy had sexually assaulted while vomiting.

The young woman was also threatened with her life and a welding hammer and told her not to raise her voice.

Her friend’s bank card was found in the car and repeated calls and messages were made to ask her pine. When he finally replied, he could hear his friend sighing.

Judge Hollister-Jones said the trio went to an ATM Ngongotahā around 7 in the morning and withdrew $ 200 using the friend’s card.

So far, the friend called the police and started a search.

Police found the car shortly after 7 o’clock in the morning. He stopped and collapsed in another car. Kennedy continued to try to evade the police, but eventually parked and allowed the victim to escape.

Two alleged associates of Kennedy denied the charges of this case.

“He thought he would die”

Judge Hollister-Jones said that the impact of the crime on both victims were “extreme”.

He said that the first victim described it in a statement as “the worst day of her life.”

“He feels completely betrayed by seeking help and this has been taken advantage of the worst way. She was afraid she wouldn’t be raped and killed … she thought she would die. “

He said he needs therapy and is now socially isolated.

Second victim who was on conviction with her parents, read the impact statement on his victim by the crown prosecutor Kris Bucher.

She wrote that it had to be a “fun and memorable night.”

When she realized that her phone rang non-stop, she wasn’t ready for what she was going to hear.

The stomach fell when she heard her friend crying while blackmail and money requests were made to release her friend.

“I was afraid the next time I would see that I would be in front of her funeral.”

She said that the screams she heard from her friend’s phone running to safety still held her at night.

“It is a constant memory of how much fear and terror it was.”

After the ordeal ended, both sets of parents were forced to travel from the Hawke Bay to collect young women, while her car was written.

She said that the pair lost her friendship, because the trauma of what they passed became too difficult to support each other.

“I am very subconscious of the guilt of” what happens if “and never becomes easier.”

Kennedy’s background

Judge Hollister-Jones said a cultural report said that Kennedy has a marked dysfunctional childhood by his mother and the periods of abandonment.

He was expelled from schools and joined a band in the middle of his adolescence. He started taking drugs at an early age, which led to a severe substance abuse and an antisocial personality disorder whose characteristics include a lack of empathy and remorse.

It was referred to the consumption of methamphetamine while the victim was withheld and the ATM money was used to buy drugs.

However, Judge Hollister-Jones said that there is no evidence that Kennedy’s substance abuse disorder was the main engine of the crime.

He was cautious about the reduction of Kennedy’s crime because of his background problems, when the offense was so serious. He granted a 13% discount for background factors and 20% for guilty plea.

Kennedy admitted charges of kidnapping, two accusations of aggravated robbery, assault with the intention of injuring, threatening to kill, aggression with a weapon, blackmail, theft below $ 500, dangerous driving and non -observance for the police.

The final conviction for all crimes, including allegations that are not related to showlifting and aggravated attack committed in earlier, was five years and eight months in prison.

Kelly Makiha is a senior journalist who reported for Daily post Rotorua For more than 25 years, covering mainly police, court, human interest and social issues.