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Richard Pu

Alias

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Offences

Sexual violation (x3) and indecent assault (x2) of an 18 year old Otorohanga man in 2007

Victims

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Offender Affiliations

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Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1953

Current Location

unknown

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to four years in July 2008

Background
From Waikato Times story July 4th 2008
A 55-year-old man who returned home from Australia last year to attend a family gathering was jailed yesterday for sex offending.

Richard Pu was sentenced in the Hamilton District Court to four years' prison after a jury earlier found him guilty on three counts of sexual violation and two counts of indecent assault.

The court heard Pu's offending happened last year while he and other guests were staying at a home in Otorohanga following the family function. During the night Pu went into the lounge and performed a sex act on an 18-year-old male guest who had been asleep on a mattress. Pu later assaulted the man in the toilet.

Crown prosecutor Jacinda Foster said Pu's offending represented a significant breach of trust. Defence lawyer Gavin Boot said Pu had a severe drinking problem and he had now accepted "he shouldn't have done what he did that night". Mr Boot described Pu's offending as opportunistic.

Judge Melanie Harland said Pu's actions had an ongoing emotional effect on the victim who continued to feel "disgust and shame". She noted that a jury had rejected Pu's defence that the sex was consensual.

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