Jail for screwdriver attacks on two men
Two screwdriver stabbing attacks have led to a man being jailed for five years in the Christchurch District Court.
Christopher Charles Mohi, a 38-year-old Northcote labourer, was sentenced on two charges of injuring with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, and one of unlawfully taking a car.
A drunk Mohi attacked the first man in his home in New Brighton on April 24 after accusing him of having a relationship with Mohi’s ex-partner. He stabbed him with the screwdriver 20 times in the face, neck, and body.
Mohi was calmed down and taken from the address by a second man, who drove him away in the first victim’s car.
On the way Mohi used a backhand motion to strike his second victim with the screwdriver 10 times, before the man deliberately crashed the car, and ran from it.
Mohi drove away, then abandoned the car outside St Bede’s College, Redwood.
Defence counsel Tony Garrett said both victims declined to write a victim impact statement, and he was not aware of any permanent injury to either of them.
He said Mohi had got broody while intoxicated, but had written letters to both victims apologising for the attacks.
Judge Raoul Neave read Mohi the first of the three strike warnings for repeat violent offenders, and said the victims did not want to attend a restorative justice meeting with Mohi.
He said Mohi had an unfortunate history of offending, including 10 offences involving violence or threatening behaviour.
The violence was an extreme revenge attack, including to the victim’s head, and in his home, and the second attack was unprovoked, he said.
He sentenced Mohi to five years in prison, but acknowledged he had already been in prison for nearly a year.
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