A man convicted of raping two women and throwing a hot cup of tea over a prison officer was given an indefinite sentence at Whanganui High Court yesterday.
Mark Anthony Spittal appeared for sentencing for three sets of charges.
The first set of charges related to the rape of a teenage victim in 2011, and included rape, disabling, injuring with reckless disregard, male assaults female, threatening to kill,
indecent act on a young person, supplying a class C drug to an under 18-year-old, and attempting to pervert the course of justice.
In a recorded police interview, played to the court in August 2016, the victim said she was staying at Spittal's house for a night when he gave her a joint to smoke, then gave her a drink with a "chunky" white substance in it, which made her feel "really dizzy and tired".
When the girl went to bed, Spittal came in and took her pyjama pants off.
She said she could see a butcher's knife jammed in the door to stop other people coming in.