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Offender Databases Dean Pattison

Dean Fredrick Pattison

Alias

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Offences

Armed robbery of North Shore Pizza Hut and the Hobsonville Service Centre in July 1987
Other convictions for attempted murder and wounding with intent

Victims

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Offender Affiliations

Michael Hyland

Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1964

Current Location

unknown

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to ten years in December 1987
Will have been released since

Background
NZ Herald story December 1987 condensed here
A 23-year-old man with an "immense" IQ and a penchant for using firearms was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment when he appeared in the High Court at Auckland yesterday. Dean Fredrick Pattison, pleaded guilty to robbing North Shore Pizza Hut and the Hobsonville Service Centre in July this year.

His accomplice in the two robberies, 24-year-old Michael Patrick Thomas Hyland, was sentenced to seven years imprisonment. Although Hyland, who also pleaded guilty, faced more charges than Pattison, including two charges related to firing a shotgun at a pursuing police car, each offender’s previous criminal record was taken into account by Mr Justice Thorp.

The judge said when Pattison was aged 19 he armed himself with a shotgun and fired indiscriminately at people in Karangahape Rd. He was sentenced to five years jail on charges of attempted murder and wounding with intent. Hyland had been jailed for four years on three charges of rape but had been released in 1985. Hyland and Pattison got to know each other in jail.

In the Pizza Hut robbery on July 28, Pattison used the shotgun to frighten staff and gain cash while Hyland drove the getaway car. Patison and Hyland were arrested shortly after this incident. The pair escaped with $2700 cash from both robberies, none of which was recovered. Pattison told police when he entered the Pizza Hut restaurant with a shotgun and masked with a balaclava people in the restaurant initially ignored him. "I felt a bit silly with a shotgun and a balaclava and nobody noticing me," he said.

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