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A man who raped a woman at knifepoint four months after he got out of prison has been jailed indefinitely.
Michael Anthony Luamanu, 37, was sentenced to preventive detention when he appeared in the High Court at Auckland last week for sentence on charges of rape, sexual violation, aggravated burglary, threatening to kill and unlawfully taking the woman's car.
He broke into her home in the Auckland suburb of Western Springs on December 4.
He raped the woman four months after he was released from prison on parole after serving a sentence for aggravated robbery and firing a shotgun at police in 1994 during the armed holdup of $400,000 from a security van at Auckland's Green Lane Hospital. All the money except $30,000 was recovered by police.
Luamanu and Lei Letele admitted the robbery and were jailed for nine years. Luamanu had a further 2-1/2 years added for shooting at police as the pair tried to escape. A third man, Bert Noel Jury, also pleaded guilty to aggravated robbery.
On the latest charge the court was told Luamanu got into the woman's house after acquiring a key but tried to disguise the way he got in by removing window panes and putting jemmy marks on a window.
He wore a balaclava when he raped and sexually violated the woman and before he left in her car, forced her to take a shower.
In court Justice Nicholson told Luamanu he was a significant risk to the public and there were grave concerns he would find another sexual victim if he was allowed out after a definite prison term. He ordered a non-parole period of eight years.
After the sentencing, Detective Sergeant Andy King said the attack was every woman's worst nightmare.
It was a shocking, violent, and pre-meditated attack on a defenceless woman in her own home.
"Hopefully this sentence will assist the victim in some small way in recovering and getting on with her life," he said in a police statement.
- NZPA
Preventive detention for 'shocking, violent' attack
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