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Robert Darryl Paul

Alias

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Offences

Home invasion, sexual assault and grievous bodily harm of a 67 year old woman in late 1998

Victims

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Offender Affiliations

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Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1962

Current Location

At large in Tinopai, Northland

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to eleven years in February 1999
Released mid 2010

Background
From the Dominion, 27 February 1999
A Northland woman's bravery has helped catch the man who sexually violated her. During the brutal attack, the 67-year-old woman bit her attacker and drew blood, which was later used to link the crime with Robert Darryl Paul.

In the High Court at Auckland yesterday Judge John Laurenson jailed Paul, 37, of Tinopai in Northland, for 11 years for what he described as the desecration of another human being. Paul earlier pleaded guilty to bursting into the woman's home, sexually assaulting her and causing her grievous bodily harm.

Crown prosecutor Phil Smith said it was a brutal, vicious and cowardly attack on an elderly woman living alone. Paul forced his way into her house about 2am, after drinking heavily. He sexually violated her, knocked out some teeth during a brutal beating and kicked her about the body. "Her life as she knew it has been destroyed," Mr Smith said. The sentence had to mark society's concern about home invasions, particularly where the victim was an elderly person living alone. Defence lawyer Gerard Winter said Paul had been horrified by what he had done. The savagery of the attack was inexplicable, Mr Winter said.

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