A former Mongrel Mob president has been found guilty of kidnapping and sexually violating a young woman who failed to repay debt for methamphetamine he supplied her.
Alexander Tamati, formerly the president of the gang's Aotearoa chapter, was on trial in the Napier District Court this week for enlisting two younger gang members to kidnap the woman, who owed him $800, and bring her to him to "work it off".
The 60-year-old pleaded not guilty to four counts of unlawful sexual connection, two each of kidnapping and aggravated assault and one each of assault on a female, assault with a blunt instrument and threatening to kill or do grievous bodily harm.
Gang members Neil Angus Benson and Hagen Taraiwa Wiremu Henare were also on trial for the same charges but pleaded guilty to the pair of kidnapping charges on Tuesday, after which the Crown withdrew the remaining charges.
On Monday the court heard the 28-year-olds kidnapped the woman and delivered her to Tamati with the message "parcel delivered".