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| Victims Families Hold DOC Accountable |
| By stuff.co.nz |
| Published: 03/16/2010 |
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Two families who had relatives killed by criminals have asked a judge to let them prosecute police and the Corrections Department for failing to keep them safe. Karl Kuchenbecker was murdered by Graeme Burton in 2007 when he was on parole for an earlier murder. Debbie Ashton was killed in a head-on collision with disqualified driver Jonathan Allan Barclay, who was in the police witness protection programme. Barclay had previously been charged with driving offences, but under two different names. Burton later got preventive detention and Barclay was convicted of manslaughter and received 5 1/2 years' jail. Debbie's mother Judy Ashton and Garth McVicar, of the Sensible Sentencing Trust, on behalf of the Kuchenbecker family, want to lay private prosecutions under the Health and Safety in Employment Act. They say police and Corrections staff, through their actions or inactions, allowed serious harm to come to others. The attempted prosecutions are out of time and require an extension by a judge. Read More. |
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