The sentencing of Napier man Trevor Eagle for the abduction and rape of a woman 10 weeks ago was further adjourned today after a judge was told some requested reports were not available.
Eagle, 31, was to have been sentenced today in the High Court in Napier on 11 charges relating
to kidnapping the woman from her Napier home and brutalising her in a forest on January 17.
Eagle was not in court when the matter was called before Justice Cooper and was remanded in continued custody to appear again on May 12.
The judge was told by Crown prosecutor Jonathon Krebs that psychiatric reports were not yet available.
The reports are required before the court considers a sentence of preventive detention for the offences, which were admitted by Eagle in the Napier District Court on January 25. He pleaded guilty to one charge of aggravated burglary, one of abduction, one of rape, six of sexual violation by unlawful sexual connection, one of indecent assault, and one of unlawfully taking the victim's car.
Eagle forced his way into the woman's home on January 17, and forced her to go with him to a forest off the Napier-Taupo highway.
She was repeatedly violated in a day-long ordeal before managing to escape. Eagle was later caught in the Bay of Plenty.
