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Siona Sale

Alias

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Offences

Home invasion and sexual assault of a Porirua woman in April 1998
Also indecent assault of a nine year old girl the same night
Previous conviction for rape in New Zealand, plus rape and grevious bodily harm in Australia

Victims

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Offender Affiliations

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Gang affiliations

none known

Age

Born 1961

Current Location

Prison

Parole/Release Dates

Sentenced to preventive detention in March 1999 with a ten year minimum non-parole period
First parole hearing March 2008
Has another hearing February 2011

Background
From the Evening Post 26/03/1999
The blade of a knife stroking her thigh woke a Porirua woman who was then sexually violated, a High Court judge said yesterday.

The man who broke into her house last April 5 was sentenced yesterday to preventive detention. In the High Court at Wellington , Justice Gendall said the jail term of at least 10 years was necessary to protect the public. Siona Sale, 38, won't be released until the Parole Board thought he was no longer a danger, the judge said. A psychiatrist said Sale did not have a mental illness. Sale said he committed the offences under the influence of an evil spirit that came to him as a vision of a black cat. Sale has a previous conviction for rape in New Zealand and was jailed in Australia for causing grievous bodily harm with intent to have sexual intercourse, and later rape. He was deported straight from jail and within six weeks of arriving back in New Zealand committed the offences for which he was sentenced yesterday, the court heard.

Sale pleaded guilty to aggravated burglary and three charges of sexually violating the 18-year-old by having unlawful sexual connection with her. The judge said he was satisfied Sale was intent on rape. It was only movement elsewhere in the house that saved the woman from rape when it made Sale leap naked from her bedroom window, fleeing into the night. About an hour earlier, Sale had gone to another house where a nine-year-old girl woke to find him stroking her leg. She raised the alarm and he left. Sale pleaded guilty to the indecent assault charge. Preventive detention was imposed for the three sexual violation offences, with four years jail for aggravated burglary and two years for indecent assault.

Defence lawyer Paul Surridge criticised Australian authorities for failing to send information about Sale 's time in Australia . "Australian authorities are keen on trade but it seems when it comes to human matters they don't want to co-operate," he said. Sale was sent home without parole conditions or formal support. He was thought to have some sort of brain problem resulting from being born prematurely, Mr Surridge said. Prosecutor Fiona Guy said the mother of the nine-year-old victim tried to help Sale when he returned to New Zealand . She now thought he was a dangerous and cunning man.

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