A Hastings teenager has been sentenced to two years and eight months' jail after pulling two guns on a young mum and her two-year-old daughter and stealing the woman's car and jewellery.
Rameka Leaf-Murray, 18, appeared in Napier District Court on Friday, having previously pleaded guilty to charges of aggravated robbery and unlawfully taking a motor vehicle late on the afternoon of Sunday, March 11 this year.
The court was told Leaf-Murray targeted a former neighbour in a Flaxmere flat, he and a friend approaching and asking for a ride as the woman was about to get into her vehicle outside her home, with the child already in the back seat of the car.
The woman agreed as she was already "heading out", the summary said.
It was soon after as they travelled on Flaxmere Ave towards Hastings that Leaf-Murray pulled a small handgun from his vest, pulled out the magazine, and told the woman the gun was loaded.