The day before a man on parole brutally attacked an 87-year-old woman, the Parole Board said it was "pleased" with his progress in the community.
At the High Court in Napier yesterday morning, Hugh Hemi Tuatua Tareha, 30, admitted the attack in the Hastings suburb of Frimley on November 7 last year.
He also pleaded guilty to an unrelated sexual assault on another woman in her Parkvale home, later that same day in November.
Tareha had name suppression until yesterday, when it was lifted after he admitted the charges of unlawful sexual connection, injuring with intent, two counts of burglary and two charges of assault with intent to cause sexual violation.
The 87-year-old woman was attacked in the middle of the day, at her Ikanui Rd home, after she went to check her mail and was grabbed and dragged back into the lounge by Tareha.