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Anthony Mein
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Wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm of a 17 year old Christchurch girl in February 2008
Previous convictions for indecent assault on two girls aged 13 and 14 in 2004
Previous conviction for violent offending in 2004
Previous convictions for similar offending in 1999
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none known
Born 1960
Prison
Sentenced to 5 years 3 months in May 2008
Background
From the Christchurch Court News May 2 2008
A 17-year-old woman who fought off an attacker with a tomahawk was in court – and sometimes in tears – as the man who attacked her was sent to jail for five years three months.
The woman's family hurled abuse across the court as 48-year-old Anthony Alan Mein was led away to begin his jail term, the Christchurch Court News website reported. Mein, unemployed, had been in a relationship with the woman at the time of the attack late last year.
For an unknown reason – even Mein says he doesn't know why – he attacked her and struck her several times around the head with the flat face of the tomahawk. "When he tried to use the sharp end, it was only because she had sufficient moxy to fight him off, that it didn't get much worse," said Christchurch District Court Judge Raoul Neave at Mein's crown sentencing today.
He also described her as "a fairly resourceful young lady doing her best to put these matters behind her". "This must have been an utterly terrifying incident. She must have thought she was going to die," he said. Mein had pleaded guilty to the charge of wounding the woman with intent to cause grievous bodily harm. He also admitted driving with excess breath-alcohol, and drinking alcohol in breach of an extended supervision order.
Defence counsel Glenn Henderson told the court Mein saw it as a friendship rather than a relationship, but acknowledged it was a sexual relationship at times. He said he was glad that the complainant was in court so that he could express his client's remorse. He pointed out that after Mein desisted with the attack he called an ambulance, and had gathered towels to mop up the blood.
Judge Neave noted the woman needed 27 stitches for the head wounds. "One can only thank the heavens that you didn't get around to using the sharp end of the tomahawk." He said Mein had a conviction for violence in 2005, and indecent assault in 2004. Before that, his last violent offending was in 1982.
The Press (Christchurch), February 26th 2008
A serial sex offender who attacked a young woman with an axe should be locked
away indefinitely, the girl's mother says.
Anthony Alan Mein, 48, yesterday pleaded guilty to a frenzied attack on a 17- year-old who was left with a fractured skull and 27 stitches to her head. Mein's current conviction for wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm is the latest in a string of convictions including being jailed for 2 years in 2005 for three counts of indecent assault on two girls aged 13 and 14.
That offending occurred just 18 months after completing his parole and a sex offender rehabilitation programme for other sex offences, in 1999. At his 2005 sentencing, Christchurch District Court Judge David Holderness said a repeat offence would put him squarely in the frame for preventive detention - - and his latest victim's mother wants the court to keep its word.
"I wish they could lock him up and throw away the key," the woman said. "He is going to reoffend. My biggest fear is for the mother whose kid is going to be next."
The mother said her daughter received a fractured skull in the attack on February 2, and had suffered excruciating headaches since. The Christchurch District Court was yesterday told how Mein had attacked the young woman after she decided to end their brief relationship. Police prosecutor Stewart Sluis said the pair began a relationship late last year and in late January had travelled to Hanmer Springs and Hokitika.
On the way back to Christchurch, Mein drank six or seven stubbies of beer. When they got back to Woolston the teenager began packing her bags. While she was doing that Mein went out to the car and got a small axe. He returned to the house and hit the woman on the side of her head with the flat side of the hatchet.
She fell to the ground and he continued hitting her while she cried out, Sluis said. Mein pinned her to the ground and as he prepared to hit her with the sharp side of the blade she managed to wrest control of the weapon. After an ambulance had been called, the woman, fearing for her safety, told Mein she would say she had fallen and hit her head on broken glass. Mein then fetched a small glass and broke it near the front steps.
Legal experts say Mein's latest offence raises the prospect of preventive detention -- an indeterminate sentence for criminals likely to reoffend.
Otago University sentencing lecturer Professor Geoff Hall said the fact the latest offence was for a violent rather than sexual crime did not matter. The fact Mein had completed a Kia Marama programme for sexual offending but had reoffended was also likely to be a factor in the judge's decision.
The teenager's mother said she objected to the term, relationship, as she considered Mein's seduction of her daughter part of his offending. Mein was remanded in custody for sentencing on May 2.
