Meth-user jailed for rape of girl
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A long-term meth-user with what probation called “an abominable history of violence” has now been jailed for nine years for the rape of an adolescent girl.
Christchurch District Court Judge Jane Farish told 38-year-old Christopher Allan McKenzie at his sentencing that his guilty plea had been only the first step for him.
“It is a very long road for you,” she said, noting the pre-sentence report by the Probation Service described him as having an abominable history of violence.
In 2009, McKenzie was jailed for six years for a drive-by shooting in Aranui when gang members from the Ruthless Boot Boys fired at a house where rival Harris gang associates were boarding.
The shooting at a house in Hampshire Street took place in the middle of the day on a public holiday, when people were around.
Shots broke a window and embedded in a ceiling, and put a hole in a tin fence and a weatherboard wall. No-one was injured.
McKenzie and his brother – both jailed – denied they were part of a gang but McKenzie referred to the gang twice in texts he sent amid the threats and rising gang tensions on the day of the shooting.
Judge Farish decided not to impose a non-parole term as part of the rape sentence.
She said she would leave the decision about 38-year-old McKenzie’s eventual release to the Parole Board, after he has completed a Kia Marama sex offenders’ rehabilitation programme.
He has already done rehabilitation programmes, a Stopping Violence course, and a first aid course while on remand in custody.
Defence counsel Tom Stevens said McKenzie had profound regret about the offending.
He said McKenzie’s lengthy indulgence in methamphetamine might give some indication of how his mind had been affected to behave in this manner.
McKenzie had pleaded guilty to the charge of sexual violation by rape after a sentencing indication hearing. He has now been given a first strike warning under the system that imposes heavier sentences on repeat violent and sexual offenders.
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