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Ian Lindsay Harpur

Alias

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Offences

Indecent assault of a 14 year old Christchurch girl in December 1996
Six previous convictions for similar offending over 12 years

Victims

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Offender Affiliations

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Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1961

Current Location

Aranui, Christchurch

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to 13 months in December 1996

Background
The Press (Christchurch), December 18th 1996
A man with a 12-year history of sex offences who indecently rubbed himself against a schoolgirl on a bus was yesterday sentenced to 13 months jail by a Christchurch District Court judge.

Ian Lindsay Harpur, 35, an injection moulder, admitted indecent assault in the December 2 incident involving a 14- year-old. Judge Somerville said Harpur's "clearly longstanding problem" had been dealt with by the courts with supervision on the last four of his six related convictions since 1985. He had already completed a sex offenders' programme. "While there was a gap between 1989 and 1993 and from then until this offence, clearly you have not overcome this problem. I have concern whether further attending of the (sex offenders') programme will make any difference," he said.

"It is in the interests of the wider public that you are placed somewhere where you cannot offend. At the end of the day you will be supervised on your return to the community." The judge rejected submissions by Tony Garrett, for Harpur, that a prison term would result in Harpur being more isolated and lonely on his release and even more likely to reoffend.

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