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Offender Databases Trevor Corke

Trevor Peter Corke

Alias

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Offences

Rape (x2), unlawful sexual connection (x2), indecent assault (x4), male assaults assault (x3), child assault, doing an indecent act and injuring with intent, committed against three young girls aged 12-16 in Maketu between May 2005 and May 2006
Had previous convictions for violent and sexual offending

Victims

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Offender Affiliations

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Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1964

Current Location

Prison

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to 13 years 6 months with a 8 year non-parole period in August 2007
Earliest parole date May 2013

Background
Fairfax Media from Saturday 4th August 2007
"Sorry is such a small word," a man accused of multiple sexual and other assaults on three young victims said in letters to them. "I have done a great deal of wrong to you all. I am truly sorry about hurting you," Trevor Peter Corke wrote to three girls who were aged between 12 and 16 when he repeatedly molested and was violent to them.

In Tauranga District Court yesterday, the 43-year-old was jailed for thirteen and-a-half years, with a minimum non-parole period of eight years. The balding, grey-bearded, stocky man had pleaded guilty to 15 charges. A number of them were representative and arose from numerous offences in 2005 and 2006 at a coastal settlement in the Western Bay of Plenty where he lived.

Judge Colin Bidois sentenced Corke on four counts of indecent assault on a young person, three of male assaults female, two each of rape, sexual violation by unlawful sexual connection and assault on a child, plus one charge each of injuring with intent to injure and committing an indecent act on a child. Rather than suppress Corke's name, the judge ruled that no details which might lead to identification of the victims be published. Crown prosecutor Simon Bridges submitted that the offending was "as serious as it gets in the district court."

Judge Bidois had the option of declining jurisdiction and sending the matter to the High Court for sentencing and possible preventive detention. Mr Bridges said Corke, who had a history of serious offences, was in complete denial and had no insight into his offending nor empathy with his victims. Neither was he motivated to change. "His risk of reoffending is high."

Corke's lawyer, Craig Tuck, used the "heartfelt comments" in letters his client had written to the victims and his guilty pleas to show he was genuinely remorseful. The prisoner had suffered long-term substance abuse and a loss of boundaries from a young age, Mr Tuck said. Never married, he had problems with relationships. Corke was "very keen" to do everything possible to change and prepared to undertake any programmes available to him. He had been through a trying time in the prison system and was currently segregated in jail, said Mr Tuck.

Judge Bidois said assaults on the three girls included backhanded slapping to the face, kneeing, punching and kicking, and various sexual attacks, including multiple rapes. In victim impact reports, the girls variously described Corke as "a scary man, mean, predator" One said she hated him and had wanted to kill herself. Another said she would never get over what he had done to her. The third claimed Corke had taken everything away from her - "pride, worth, the right to a safe and carefree childhood".

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