The incident happened on a residential street in Whitby, Porirua. Photo / Google
A judge has reserved his decision on what to do with a mentally ill man who tried to snatch a 3-year-old girl off a Porirua street.
The 32-year-old was arrested in March after a father told police a man lunged at him and tried to snatch his 3-year-old daughter as
the pair were walking on Exploration Way, in the Porirua suburb of Whitby.
The man was staying in a mental health facility on the street, run by Pathways.
The man, who has name suppression, was earlier found not guilty by way of insanity on two counts of assault and one count of kidnapping.
He appeared before Judge James Johnston in the Porirua District Court for evidence to be heard from a psychiatrist.
