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Offender Database John Blane

John James Blane

Alias

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Offences

Wounded five people causing them grevious bodily harm at Bridge Pa, near Hastings in June 2008
Assault on a Napier woman in her home in January 2002
Also assaulted a three year old child in the same incident
Has 58 convictions in total

Victims

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Offender Affiliations

George Hapuku
Paul Ropiha
Tutera Te Moana

Gang affiliations

Mongrel Mob

Age

Born 1978

Current Location

Prison

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to just 6 months in mid 2002
Sentenced to 8 years 9 months with a 4 year 3 month non-parole period in May 2009

Background
Otago Daily Times, May 2009 here
Hawkes Bay Today story here
Dominion Post story here
Story from Hawkes Bay Today
John James Blane violated the sanctity of a woman's home with violent lawless behaviour.Judge Mark Perkins said yesterday. Blane, 24, unemployed, of Napier, appeared in the Napier District Court for sentence on January 1 charges of assault, assaulting a child and being unlawfully in a building.

He admitted the offences at an earlier court hearing where it was said he walked into a house in Longfellow Avenue at 7am on January 1. He went upstairs to the bedroom of a sleeping woman and became violent when she woke and told him to leave. The woman rushed out of the house and returned shortly with another woman.

Together they tried to get him out of the house but he struggled and refused. When a three year old girl came up the stairs looking for her mother Blane lashed out and kicked her in the upper body.

The two women managed to force him downstairs where they held him on the floor until police arrived after he had broken a glass pane in a door. Blane's lawyer, Louise Fisher, said Blane was intoxicated and went to the wrong house.

Judge Perkins said Blane had a long history of drug abuse and a community based sentence was no longer appropriate. Blane was jailed for six months.

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