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Gisborne District Court news

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A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.

A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.

A man burgled an inner-city house when he was on release conditions from prison, which included his whereabouts being tracked through an electronically monitored ankle device, Gisborne District Court was told.

Jason Osborne, 41, forklift driver, pleaded guilty to burglary and a breach of release conditions.

The house in Rutene Road was burgled in October last year.

In February this year, police searched a house where Osborne was living and found one of two laptops taken during the burglary.

Osborne told police he did not know why his fingerprints were found inside the Rutene Road house or why he had been electronically tracked to that address at the time in question.

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Judge Warren Cathcart jailed him for 11 months with leave to apply for home detention.

The judge also imposed six months release conditions and ordered Osborne to make reparation of $2000 for items he stole from the house.

According to an agreed summary of facts, Osborne forced his way through a window at the Rutene Road house on October 18, last year.

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It was a house in which one bedroom was being used as an office for a business and the others rented to foreign employees. There was no one home at the time.

Osborne rummaged through drawers and wardrobes in bedrooms, strewing clothes about, before finding his way to the office.

He stole some designer shoes and clothes, an iPhone, iPad, two laptops and a wireless computer mouse.

The judge noted it was Osborne’s first conviction for burglary; his previous were mainly for violence or driving offences.

Calculating the sentence, Judge Cathcart adopted a global starting point of 20 months imprisonment, then gave Osborne a full 25 percent discount (five months) for his guilty pleas and a significant discount of 20 percent (four months) for the findings in a cultural report.

Judge Cathcart said the report showed a clear nexus between Osborne’s offending and personal background. Osborne sadly had a traumatic childhood and deprived upbringing that included him experiencing food scarcity, violence, instability of care and unstable accommodation.

He had suffered from abuse and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Counsel Elliot Lynch noted Osborne had been in custody since his arrest in February and was therefore close to time served for these latest offences.

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Mark Thomas Warner, 32, pleaded guilty to three sexual offences relating to incidents more than five years ago — attempted rape, unlawful sexual connection, and indecent assault.

He was given a first strike warning and remanded in custody by consent for a pre-sentence report and sentencing on September 16.

K’Las Stephen Tihore, 19, pleaded guilty to two violent offences, arising out of an incident on October 4 last year — that along with two other men he assaulted someone with intent to injure, and that with three other men, he wounded a second complainant with intent to injure.

He received a three-strike warning for the wounding charge and was further remanded on bail for sentence on September 16.

A pre-sentence report will include an assessment as to whether an electronically monitored sentence option might be suitable.

Two of his co-accused appeared later in the same Crown list, each pleading not guilty.

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