Dealer bashed for continued drug sales
A Christchurch man who bashed up a persistent drug dealer has been jailed for seven-and-a-half years.
The 39-year-old attacker, Peter James Muir, had told the dealer to stop supplying drugs to the brother of a friend of his.
The dealer kept on supplying, and the bashing that Muir then gave him has left him with metal plates in his face.
Muir was sentenced in the Christchurch District Court today after admitting charges of intentionally causing grievous bodily harm, assaulting a woman who tried to stop the bashing, burglary, and arson.
Muir has 90 convictions of his own, including some for violence, arson, and robbery, and 40 for burglary. He has served 13 terms of imprisonment.
Muir represented himself at the sentencing, and conducted his own discussions with Crown prosecutor Claire Boshier to settle some disputed details in the summary of facts. He spoke well in court, and talked about his desire to change and the programmes and courses he had been doing while in custody.
He explained that he had carried out the assault because the man had persisted in selling drugs to the brother of a friend, even after being warned off.
Muir went to the man’s house, dragged him out his front door and gave him a hiding that caused multiple broken bones in the face requiring surgery to insert metal plates.
When Muir paid the man another visit later, shouldering his way through the door, the dealer confronted him with a pistol. Muir left but tossed a lighted box of matches into the man’s parked car, causing $800 damage.
Judge Doherty imposed a series of prison sentences totalling seven-and-a-half years but decided he would not set a non-parole term that would delay Muir’s eligibility for release, because of the work he had done.
He wished Muir good luck as he was taken to the cells to begin his latest jail term.
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