"Let them know if they want this to be a drama we are willing to go there, jail is nothing to us."
Those were the words convicted murderer Joseph Rewiri wrote in a letter directing accomplices to commit an aggravated burglary while he was serving a life sentence.
Rewiri, 49, appeared by audio visual link at Tauranga District Court this week after pleading guilty to procuring an aggravated robbery at an Omanawa address, armed with a 12 gauge shotgun.
Judge Thomas Ingram sentenced Rewiri to two years and three months in prison, with a minimum of one year behind bars.
This sentence would be served cumulatively to the sentence he is already serving for murder.
In 2008 Rewiri was sentenced to life in prison with a non-parole period of 14 years for the 2006 murder of Peter Franklyn in Rotorua. In 2013, he was sentenced to nine years behind bars for the manslaughter of Tauranga businessman Gary Kimura, who died in 2011. That was to be served concurrently with his murder sentence.