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Offender Databases Mark McGowan

Mark Andrew McGowan

Alias

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Offences

Assault, robbery and grievous bodily harm of a Christchurch man in an October 2006 carjacking

Victims

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Offender Affiliations

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Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1983

Current Location

Unknown

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to 5 years 3 months in November 2007
Due for early release August 2009

Background
NZ Herald story here
From the Rotorua Daily Post 4th October 2007
A man was found guilty of a car jacking in which the owner was seriously injured after being thrown from the vehicle as it was driven off. A Christchurch District Court jury found Mark Andrew McGowan, a 24-year-old asphalt worker, guilty of assaulting Richard James Govan, robbing him of his car, and causing grievous bodily harm as he drove away. The jury rejected McGowan's defence counsel's theory that one of his mates might have put the keys of the stolen vehicle into his pocket after he fell into a drunken sleep on the bonnet of a car outside his house.

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