Prison stabbing sentencing deferred
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The sentencing of a man who used a home-made knife in a frenzied attack on another inmate at Christchurch Men’s Prison was deferred for three months in the Christchurch District Court.
Judge Jane Farish said she had received a psychiatric and psychological report on Terry Jason Nahi, who is in prison for the murder of 21-year-old Lisa Hurrell in 1998.
She did not decline the jurisdiction and send the case to the High Court for a preventive detention sentence to be considered, but put the scheduled sentencing off today.
Nahi is charged with wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm to the victim who received stab wounds to his face and body, and defensive wounds to his hands.
Nahi entered his cell, and the victim was heard yelling as he was being stabbed repeatedly in the head and the top half of his torso. He defended himself by placing his hands up to protect his face, and the attack was stopped when Corrections staff intervened.
Nahi had been in a relationship with Miss Hurrell, and was the father of her three children. She had a protection order against him when he broke into her house, beat her with a metal pipe, and stabbed her three times. He was jailed for life in 1999.
Judge Farish remanded Nahi in custody to appear by video link on May 17.
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