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David Charles Hill

Alias

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Offences

Rape, abuse and assault of an Invercargill woman from December 2004 to March 2005
Also charges of intentional injury and assault with a weapon

Victims

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Offender Affiliations

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Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1960

Current Location

Prison

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to 9 years 6 months with a 4 year 6 month non-parole period in August 2007

Background
From the Southland Times 25th Aug 2007
DAVID CHARLES HILL was yesterday sentenced to nine and a half years' jail for the "degrading" rape and "abusive domination" of his victim. Judge Kevin Phillips told the 47-year-old man in the Invercargill District Court that anger management was at the root of offending, which also included charges of intentional injury and assault with a weapon.

Hill had forced pieces of paper with a biblical verse written on them into his victim's mouth, and held a knife to her throat, inflicting small cuts to her neck, threatening to cut out her tongue. The offending happened during a four-month period starting in December 2004.

Judge Phillips said the victim had felt dehumanised by Hill's criminal behaviour, and that the offending was serious enough for him to impose a four- and-a-half year minimum prison period. He also refused name suppression. "I can't find, no matter how hard I try, any mitigating factors." Defence counsel Hugo Young said Hill was no fool, and "he understands the road he's going down" at sentencing.

From the Southland Times 29th Feb 2008
A man sentenced in Invercargill to nine and a half years' jail for rape, assault with a weapon and injuring with intent to injure has had his appeals against the conviction and sentence dismissed by the Court of Appeal. David Charles Hill was convicted following a retrial in the Invercargill District Court and sentenced in August. Judge Kevin Phillips said at the sentencing the victim had felt dehumanised by Hill's criminal behaviour, and that the offending was serious enough for him to impose a four-and-a-half-year minimum jail period.

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