Cultural reports can mean big discounts off an offender's sentence - but are they really needed?

Sarah Curtis
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Multimedia Journalist·Northern Advocate (Whangarei)·
15 mins to read
Cultural reports can mean big discounts off an offender's sentence - but are they really needed?
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Growing up in a violent and dysfunctional home had a devastating impact on Samuel Ryan, who attempted suicide several times in his early teenage years.

He was the first of four children born to teen parents. His father constantly meted out violence to him and his mother and routinely subjected

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