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Ashleigh Clarke

Alias

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Offences

Serious unprovoked assault on two Aro Valley, Wellington shopkeepers in February 2006, along with an additional assault of a security guard
Also the aggravated robbery of a taxi driver in late 2004, theft, breaching bail, extensive history of violence

Victims

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Offender Affiliations

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Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1988

Current Location

At large in Wellington

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to 15 months (deferred) in February 2006
Sentenced to 12 months imprisonment in March 2007
Given leave to apply for home detention - since released

Background
From the Dominion Post February 2007
A young woman jailed as a 15-year-old for attacking a taxi driver has been sent back to prison, this time for attacking two dairy owners and a security guard. Ashleigh Clarke, now 18, had faked breathing difficulties during a struggle and, when the woman shopkeeper went to comfort her, Clarke grabbed her hair and punched her three or four times. The shopkeepers, who are in their 50s, said the attack on February 3, 2006, was one of the worst of their 26 years in the dairy in Aro Valley, central Wellington. Clarke snatched a pie when an associate's theft drew one of the owners out of the shop. She assaulted the other owner and tried to take beer. During the struggle she punched both owners and a security guard who came to help, yelled racial abuse and knocked over displays. Clarke pleaded guilty to three charges of aggravated assault, one of theft and one of breaching bail.

Last October she was remanded to see if she could stay out of trouble till February, but when Clarke appeared in Wellington District Court yesterday, Judge Jan Kelly was told she taken a car belonging to a former boyfriend in December and had been ordered to pay $340 reparation for the car's broken window. Judge Kelly acknowledged the progress Clarke had made since the dairy incident. She was enrolled for the second year of an agricultural course and had been working over the summer break. But the judge said Clarke had a history of violence, beginning with a 15-month jail term for aggravated robbery of a taxi driver as a 15-year-old. The dairy attack happened within days of being given a deferred sentence on an assault charge. Judge Kelly sentenced her to 12 months' jail and ordered her to take drug, alcohol and violence counselling. Clarke was allowed to ask to serve part of her sentence on home detention. The Parole Board will decide whether to grant it.

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