10:40 AM
The man who raped and murdered Auckland woman Kylie Jones has been sentenced to preventive detention.
Taffy Hotene admitted killing the 22-year-old journalist in a Glen Innes park in June.
Hotene, aged 30, was sentenced in the High Court this morning to preventive detention on the rape conviction.
He
has been given the mandatory life sentence for murder, with a minimum non-parole period of 18 years.
He has also been sentenced to 12 years for kidnapping Kylie Jones, and 9 years for robbery.
Kylie Jones was stabbed to death on her way home from work and was left lying in a stream 150 metres from her house.
Hotene was on parole when he killed Ms Jones. He had been out of prison for two months, having served two thirds of a 12-year sentence for attacks on three Wanganui women.
In imposing sentence in 1992, the judge said Hotene was too young for preventive detention.
- IRN
