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Pene Akarana
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Serious assault, grevious bodily harm, threatening kill and unlawfully detaining his ex-partner in Auckland in February 2005
Also has a lengthy and disturbing record of other violent offending including, manslaughter, aggravated robbery, injuring with intent to cause grevious bodily harm, assault with intent to injure, injuring with intent to injure, miscellaneous assaults, threatening to kill and contravention of a protection order
Ronald John Kohika
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none known
Born 1964
Prison
Sentenced to preventive detention in December 2005
A minimum five year non-parole period was imposed
Eligible for parole from February 2010
Background
From a Christchurch Press story November 1997
A tutor who stabbed a man at his former girlfriend's house was jailed for 61/2 years when he appeared in the High Court in Christchurch. Although Pene Ruka Akarana, 33, an art and crafts tutor had discovered artistic talent and turned his life around he still could not control his anger, Justice Hansen said yesterday. Akarana last month pleaded guilty to manslaughter. Justice Hansen said Akarana's ''violent outburst'' which had resulted in the death of a ''totally innocent man'' was ''at the middle to more serious end'' of the scale for manslaughter.
Counsel for Akarana, Pip Hall, said Akarana accepted responsibility for the death of Ronald John Kohika at Hornby on May 17. His Honour said Akarana had seen a car at the house of a woman with whom he had broken up. He broke into the house and got angry when he found Kohika in a bedroom with the woman. Akarana knocked Kohika to the ground. Kohika had then received a deep chest wound from a screwdriver and died soon after. Justice Hansen agreed with Mr Hall that the details of who held the screwdriver and how it was used were unclear.
He told Akarana the circumstances of Kohika being in the bedroom with the woman ''had nothing to do with you''. He accepted the incident was unpremeditated and spontaneous. He accepted that Akarana had called for help for the victim and had shown remorse. However, he could not ignore Akarana's previous convictions for violent offences up to 1992. Akarana had ''turned his life around'' since about 1993, Justice Hansen said. He had been clear of alcohol and drugs and had discovered a substantial talent as a painter and sculptor. However, Akarana had made little or no progress in dealing with anger.
