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Offender Databases Jack Yorke

Jack Arthur Yorke

Alias

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Offences

Armed robbery of a Rotorua Lotto outlet in June 1998

Victims

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Offender Affiliations

Wayne Yorke
Michael Yorke
Gabriel Wikitoa
Stuart Ngatai

Gang affiliations

Black Power

Age

unknown

Current Location

At large

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to six years six months in July 1999
Released October 2002?

Background
NZ Herald story here
Judge Chris McGuire said, in sentencing a Black Power member to two years' jail, that he viewed with growing unease the influence of gangs on the lives and freedoms of ordinary people. Their influence extended to the detection of crime and even the judicial process.

He was sentencing Michael Phillip Graham Yorke, aged 41, of Tauranga, for threatening to kill. Judge McGuire said Yorke went to his cousin Adam Yorke's house in Rotorua with three other gang members, all wearing patches, in early August 1998.

He was told by his cousin to leave the property, and to leave his family alone. Yorke told his cousin he would never see his son again if he (the son) did not go back to the Black Power gang and that he was going to get "national Black Power to come and do away with the son." The son was a Black Power member in Tauranga and wanted to get out of the gang. He was hiding from the gang at the time, in a nearby flat.

Court of Appeal judgement here

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