‘Vigilante’ raid on tinny house
One of the men who raided a tinny house because he said they were “selling drugs to the kids in the community”, was sentenced to four years two months prison with no chance of parole.
It was a second strike offence for 30-year-old Chance Mangukaha Beazley, who is the son of the deceased South Island Black Power president Ardie Beazley.
When he was read the second strike warning Beazley told the Christchurch District Court and Judge Jane Farish that he went to the tinny house to protect his sister, and did not assault anyone, but taught the people there a lesson financially.
Beazley, who described himself in court as a vigilante, said he was trying to do his best, and wanted to be a better person, but he was born into a gang family.
Beazley was sentenced on two charges of aggravated robbery, which happened while he was on release conditions for a violent offence where he had been read a first strike warning.
Beazley’s co-offender, 27-year-old Simon Barry Sekai was earlier sentenced to jail for three years, and 19-year-old Corey Martin was sentenced to seven months’ home detention.
The fourth man, Tyrone George Michael Whittaker, 19, pleaded guilty to an aggravated robbery charge and will be sentenced on March 4.
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