Maori activist gets six months' jail

The Court of Appeal has quashed Maori activist Te Kaha's 320-hour community work sentence for black market paua offences and replaced it with six months' imprisonment.

Te Kaha's co-accused, his nephew Trent John Karaitiana, had his 350-hour community work order quashed and was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment.

Both have been given leave to apply for home detention.

Te Kaha and Karaitiana had admitted charges of conspiring to defraud the New Zealand public after about 100kg of paua was sold to an undercover fisheries officer in 2003.