escalating violence in our community Become a member of the Sensible Sentencing Trust

Mouseover links for full page descriptions

Offender Databases Gary MacGregor-Dunn

Gary MacGregor-Dunn

Alias

.

Offences

Sexual violation, kidnapping, threatening to kill and assaulting a woman at her Taupo home in February 2006

Victims

.

Offender Affiliations

.

Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1970

Current Location

unknown

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to eight years in September 2007
Parole expected October 2008

Background
The Dominion Post 20th September 2007
A Taupo electrician has been jailed for eight years for raping a woman after a night of passion turned sour.

Gary MacGregor-Dunn, 37, was found guilty in August by a Rotorua District Court jury of sexual violation, kidnapping, threatening to kill and assaulting a female at the victim's home in February last year. At sentencing yesterday, Judge Chris McGuire said that in the week leading up to the offending, the couple had consensual sex regularly at the victim's house. On the night of the offending, MacGregor-Dunn had gone to the victim's house to cook dinner.The pair had consensual sex and after consuming a lot of alcohol the mood of the night turned sour when the victim told MacGregor-Dunn she wanted to end the relationship.

He became angry and was asked to leave but refused. He kept the victim in a bedroom, where they had sex, abused her verbally, and unplugged the phone so she could not call for help. He threatened to kill her and then himself. The victim fainted at one stage in the toilet. MacGregor-Dunn had stuck his fist, then a duvet, in her mouth to stop her from screaming. She suffered bruising to her arms, body and neck, had not been able to work for a week and attended counselling since the attack, the court was told.

Police arrived at 3am after they were alerted by a friend of the victim who the victim had managed to ring from a cellphone. She told police later she thought she would die. Defence lawyer Jonathon Briscoe said the couple had a strong sexual attraction to each other. He said the victim had exaggerated her injuries and did not appear traumatised.

---

Corrections and Additional Information
We endeavour to make this database as accurate as possible, but we are at the mercy of whatever information we can find in various online and offline archives. We rely on the public - that is, people like you - to fill in the gaps that we cannot. If you wish to submit additional information or a correction to this file CLICK HERE . Privacy: Trust policy is that all sources are treated as strictly confidential unless we are explicitly told otherwise. If you wish to see a file removed from this database certain conditions must be met by the offender set out HERE Note that this does NOT apply for those that are the primary offender in a murder, rape, or any sexual offending involving minors. We do not enter into correspondence regarding the guilt/innocence of offenders. Such correspondence is not responded to, especially if the offender concerned has a number of prior convictions

Back to Top