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Offender Databases Reuben Cooper

Reuben Dean Cooper

Alias

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Offences

Entered a Kumara, West Coast house and indecently assaulted a 15 year old girl in bed in November 2003
Was on parole at the time
Assault of a Linwood man in 2010
Assault of a Linwood woman in 2011 while on parole
A significant list of previous convictions including grevious bodily harm, assault, including 2 assaults on women and burglaries

Victims

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Offender Affiliations

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Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1972

Current Location

Prison

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to 3 years 6 months with a 2 year non-parole period in December 2004
Unsuccessfully appealed this sentence in May 2005
Had been sentenced to 5 years for the grevious bodily harm
Sentenced to 8 months for the latest assault in November 2011

Background
Greymouth, Dec 22 - A West Coast man was today sentenced to three years' six months jail for indecently assaulting a girl aged 15 and breaking into a home with intent to commit the crime. Reuben Dean Cooper, 33, of Kumara, was found guilty by a Greymouth District Court jury of both counts last month.

At today's sentencing Judge Murray Abbott said the jurors had got it right. He ordered Cooper to serve a minimum non-parole period of two years. Cooper broke into the house of the complainant's boyfriend on November 27, 2003, after a party which she had attended there.

Further data from the appeal case (PDF) here

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