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Richard Miller
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Indecent assault of a six year old Napier girl in September 2007 while on bail for the earlier offending
Indecently assault (representative x2) of two girls, aged 15 and 16, between February 2006 and February 2007
Rape (x2), sexual violation by unlawful connection (x3) and indecent assault of a ten year old Napier girl in 1990 and 1991
Breached his bail conditions eight times, including holding parties for children
Also intimidated witnesses while on remand in Hawke's Bay prison
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Born 1962
Prison
Sentenced to 9 years 9 months in December 2008
Background
Hawkes Bay Today story 18th December 2008
A man's jail sentence of almost 10 years won't be increased because of threats he made in prison to two witnesses in an attempt to stop them giving evidence. The decision was made by Judge Tony Adeane in Napier District Court on Tuesday, when 46-year-old Richard Miller appeared for sentence for attempting to dissuade witnesses, indecent assault and manufacturing cannabis oil. It came a day after Miller was sentenced in the High Court to nine years and nine months for rape and other sexual offences against young girls, on which juries had found him guilty during two separate trials, relating to events dating back 18 years.
Judge Adeane decided on Tuesday that while jail sentences should be imposed on five remaining charges they should be concurrent with that imposed on Monday. Both witnesses were, like Miller, remand inmates at Hawke's Bay Prison earlier this year when attempts were made to dissuade them from giving evidence. Each gave evidence at a depositions hearing last month, but one who was no longer an inmate failed to return to court after a lunch break, telling police he was again being intimidated.
Miller pleaded guilty to the two charges and was sentenced to 18 months. On two charges of indecent assault which he had admitted several months earlier he was sentenced to 12 months, and on a charge of manufacturing cannabis oil, which he had also admitted, he was sentenced to three months. The Judge said the while the dissuading of the witnesses was serious and warranted further jail, he said it could have impacts on the parole situation which couldn't be justified.
Hawkes Bay Today story 8th November 2008
Unemployed Napier man Richard Miller was found guilty on Wednesday of six sexual abuse charges. The 46-year-old was convicted of committing an indecent act on a six-year-old girl last September. His other charges - two of rape against one girl when she was 10 and later 11, and three sexual violation charges relating to the same incidents, dated back to 1990. The now 29-year-old victim spoke to Hawke's Bay Today after the guilty verdicts.
From the Dominion Post 7th November 2008
A Napier man found guilty of sexually abusing two young girls was already behind bars awaiting sentence for abusing another two girls.
An interim order for name suppression was lifted yesterday. Richard Miller was waiting to be sentenced for sexual offending when a
this week found him guilty of raping a young girl and abusing another. Miller has been in custody since April when his electronic bail was
revoked after it was found he had breached bail conditions by holding birthday parties for toddlers. He had been barred from associating with anyone under 16. Miller, 46, was found guilty in the High Court at Napier on Wednesday of six charges relating to girls aged 6 and 10.
He was found guilty of committing an indecent act on the six-year-old in a car at Nelson Park on September 19. Five other convictions, including two of rape, involved a 10-year-old girl and occurred in 1990. His other convictions came after an earlier trial in August. He was convicted on two representative charges of indecently assaulting two girls, aged 15 and 16, between February 2006 and February 2007. The 15-year-old was a family friend. The 16-year-old had stayed with Miller and his wife for a short time. Miller was found guilty on August 14 after a two-day trial in Napier District Court. He is due to be sentenced on December 16 - eight days after he is due to be sentenced in the High Court on the other convictions
From the Dominion Post 6th November 2008
A child-sex offender caught by a community patroller is facing a long prison sentence after being found guilty of sexually abusing two young girls.Napier man Richard Miller, 46, was found guilty in the High Court at Napier on six charges, relating to girls aged 6 and 10.
A jury yesterday found him guilty of committing an indecent act on the six-year-old in a car at Nelson Park on September 19.
He and the girl were seen in the car by volunteer community patroller Brooke Ibbotson, who followed it back to the girl's house.
Unemployed Miller, who frequently took the girl to and from school, was charged with committing an indecent act and an alternate
charge of attempted rape.
The nature of the allegations triggered police to reopen claims of sexual abuse made against Miller in 1990 by a girl aged 10. Miller was her babysitter. The woman, now 29, made allegations at the time, and again in 2001. In both instances there was deemed to be insufficient evidence. Similarities with the latest case meant charges were combined. As well as the offending against the six-year-old he was found guilty of five charges, including two of rape, against the 10-year-old girl in 1990. He was found not guilty of attempting to rape the six-year-old. Justice Forrest Miller told him a "lengthy sentence of imprisonment is inevitable". Miller will be held in custody till sentencing on December 8. The 29-year-old and the six- year-old's mother whispered "Yes" as each verdict was read out. As Miller was led away, someone yelled out, "Rot in hell." Miller responded by simulating a firing pistol with his hand.
Detective Constable Phil Sayers said it was a great relief to have resolved an 18-year-old crime. "It could only have been done thanks to the evidence and bravery of [the six-year-old]." Mr Ibbotson said he was "absolutely delighted" with the verdicts. "This really shows that people have to get involved. If you see something that you're not sure about, please report it. "I had a gut feeling about this when I saw it. The defence lawyer challenged that . . . but I knew what I saw." The mother of the younger victim said she was happy that Miller was off the street. She said her daughter "has been very brave dealing with this. It has been really hard on her and I'm very proud of how she's coped. "Giving evidence was gruelling and she was quite a mess afterwards."
From the Dominion Post 4th November 2008
A chance encounter and quick thinking by a community patroller resulted in a man being arrested and charged with sexually molesting a six-year-old girl, a court has been told. Richard Miller, 46, appeared in the High Court at Napier yesterday accused of sexual offences against two girls. The unemployed Napier man faces one charge related to the six-year-old. The jury will need to decide between alternate charges of attempted rape or committing an indecent act. Five further charges relate to sexual offences, including two of rape, against a 10-year-old girl in 1990. Crown prosecutor Clayton Walker told jurors that volunteer community patroller Brooke Ibbotson was returning a patrol car to its parking yard in Nelson Park at the end of his shift on the afternoon of September 19 last year.
He noticed a car near the yard with a man in its passenger's seat moving in a manner that suggested a sexual activity. As Mr Ibbotson drove away from the yard, he decided to return "as it was a strange time and place to be doing what he was doing", Mr Walker said. On driving back into the park, he saw the car approach him. In its passenger seat was a young girl. "You can imagine the horror," Mr Walker said. Mr Ibbotson followed the car out of the park and through several streets to an address in Onekawa, where the girl got out. He waited in order to get a better look at the driver. As Miller drove away, he stopped beside Mr Ibbotson's car and asked why he had followed him from Nelson Park. Mr Ibbotson contacted police, who spoke to the girl and arrested Miller that day.
Mr Walker said she told police she had tried to wriggle away from Miller, who had told her not to tell anyone what had occurred. Miller was a friend of the girl's mother and often took the girl to and from school. He does not dispute talking to Mr Ibbotson in Onekawa, but denies the girl's allegations and claims he took her straight home from school without going into the park. Mr Walker said jurors would hear from ESR scientists who would say dna found on the girl's underwear was 44 times more likely to be Miller's than anyone else's. The girl is one of 13 witnesses being called by the Crown. She will give evidence over closed-circuit television from another courtroom. Another witness is the woman, now 29, who alleges Miller sexually assaulted her in 1990 when he was her babysitter.
