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| Court Upholds Sentence for Bashing Guard |
| By stuff.co.nz |
| Published: 02/25/2010 |
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A preventive detention sentence has been confirmed for a Wellington man who sexually assaulted a man and blinded a prison guard in a separate attack. Mare Jones Wharepapa was in custody on remand when he attacked a Rimutaka Prison officer with a broom on July 4, 2008. The officer had reported Wharepapa the previous day for verbal abuse. Wharepapa ruptured the guard's eyeball, and fractured his eye socket and jaw. The officer had a titanium plate inserted into his skull and has probably permanently lost the sight in his left eye. In the earlier incident, in August 2007, Wharepapa violated a 19-year-old man, hit him over the head with a wine bottle and held a knife against his throat. Wharepapa claimed the man owed him $20. Read More. |
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