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Offender Databases Graeme Kiwi

Graeme Kerema Kiwi

Alias

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Offences

Sexual violation by rape (5 counts), unlawful sexual connection (1 count), male assaults female (4 counts), abduction/kidnap (6 counts), assault with intent to injure (3 counts), threatening to kill (9 counts) and threatening grevious bodily harm (2 counts), all relating to offending againt two Bay of Plenty women in 2008
Also driving while disqualified
Some of the rape and kidnapping offences occured while he was on bail for the other offences

Victims

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Offender Affiliations

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Gang affiliations

none known

Age

To be advised

Current Location

Prison

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to fifteen years in May 2011

Background
From the Sunday News 15th May 2011
A woman who fled New Zealand with her children after being sexually, physically and emotionally abused in a four-month ordeal is relieved her attacker was jailed this week. On Monday, at Tauranga District Court, Graeme Kerema Kiwi was sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment after being convicted on 24 charges including rape and kidnapping. Twenty of those charges were against the woman who fled across the Tasman in 2008. The other charges related to his abduction and brutalising of another woman while he was on bail over his prolonged abuse of his first victim.

"I had to leave the country because of him [Kiwi]," the first victim told Sunday News from her new home. "We lost everything, because we didn't have time to sell anything, and have had to start all over again. "I had spent 10 years on my own giving my children a stable life, staying in the same house. "The kids had grown up in the same area. So I literally ripped them out of their lives. "My eldest daughter didn't talk to me for about a month after we left New Zealand. My son also went through a stage of depression."

Her ordeal began when the woman – in her 40s – was approached by Kiwi in a bar at Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, in 2008. He flooded her with about 800 texts, many of them threatening. "He constantly told me that he had nothing to lose," the woman said. "In one of the incidents that were mentioned in court, he had me sitting in front of a police car... and he had my arm held behind my back. I was sobbing from what he had already put me through that night. There was a policeman sitting in the car, but Graeme just said, `Go on scream, and I will break your neck before he gets to you, I have nothing to lose'."

So scared did she become for her safety, the woman kept a diary on her computer so authorities could be alerted to his threats and abuse if anything happened to her. Kiwi was charged with a variety of offences against her, after she left the country. He was granted bail, and went on to kidnap and abuse another woman. On Monday, Kiwi was found guilty on three charges of kidnapping, two charges of abduction for sex, five of rape, one of unlawful sexual connection, five of male assaults female, two of assault with intent to injure, and two of threatening to kill – all against the woman who fled to Australia.

He was found guilty of four offences against his second victim – rape, unlawful sexual connection, kidnapping and injuring with intent to cause grievous bodily harm. The first victim was pleased with the length of his prison sentence. "The police and the crown prosecutor were absolutely fantastic," she said. "I really hope speaking out will help change things. It's really wrong that people can be bailed when they're up on charges similar to what this man was." She said Kiwi's brutalising of his other victim "should never have happened".

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