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Kalvant Karl Singh

Alias

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Offences

Rape, assault and sexual violation of a 57 year old Auckland woman in front of her son
Also grevious bodily harm, weapons and miscellaneous drugs charges including methamphetamines

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 17 years with a minimum 8 year non-parole period in August 2005
Unsuccessfully appealed this sentence in April 2006

Background
NZ Herald story here
From Dominion Post story 29th April 2006
A man who forced a haemophiliac to watch as his mother was raped and sexually assaulted with a loaded pistol has had an appeal against his 17-year prison sentence thrown out. Kalvant Karl Singh, 41, of Auckland, tied up the haemophiliac son, 28, at gunpoint, viciously beat him, cut his face with a knife, then forced him to watch his mother being sexually humiliated. The crime, which lasted nearly 13 hours, happened in Auckland in June 2004 because Singh believed the son had stolen money from him and slept with his girlfriend.

Singh was jailed in August 2005 for 17 years after being convicted in the High Court at Auckland on charges of kidnapping, sexual assault, assault with a weapon and possessing equipment to manufacture methamphetamine. Singh had already admitted causing grievous bodily harm, one count of kidnapping, assault with a weapon and unlawfully possessing a pistol. Justice Mark Cooper described Singh's offending as a sadistic and callous premeditated attack, and ordered him to spend at least eight years behind bars.

Singh appealed against the sentence on the grounds that it was excessive. At an appeal hearing on April 5, his lawyer, P E Dacre, argued there had been no breach of trust such as that found with sexual offending by parents, relatives or caregivers. He also highlighted a lack of serious physical injuries to his victims leading to permanent disabilities. However, Justice John Hansen dismissed the appeal this week in a written decision, calling Singh's sexual offending "depraved and degrading to an extreme degree". It had been used to extort money or information from the son to the extent that it had an element of torture about it, he said.

"The reality of this case is that there was a sustained, depraved, sadistic and brutal sexual attack . . . over a 12 to 13- hour period. "The appellant inflicted a serious beating on the male victim, causing a broken nose, lost tooth, broken jaw, facial fractures, bruising around his right eye and cuts to his head and lips. For much of this ordeal the male victim was bound, making him helpless. "Indeed, it is hard to think of a worse case." If anything, the eight-year non-parole period handed down to Singh was generous, the decision said.

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