A half-witted 23 year old anti-car copycat climate protester doused red paint across a Wellington car dealership. I say copycat as every time some form of protest is reported from abroad, such as throwing paint at diverse objects, within a month our look-at-me lightweight brigade does it here.
She escaped a conviction and was ordered by Judge Jan Kelly to make a $500 donation to the Life-Flight charity, but, note this, inexplicably pay only half of the repair damages to the car dealership.
This is back-to-front madness. Reimbursing the dealership should have been the priority before symbolic financially punitive gestures.
It reinforces the hard reality that many lower court judges aint too bright and seek these offices because of their inability to eke out a living as a lawyer.
That said, one thing I’ve observed with our female judges is they come down hard on violence and sex offenders, and rightly so, whereas far too often their male peers virtually let offenders off with home detention non-punishments.
Let’s hope the dealership sues the look-at-me halfwit to add to her costs.
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Good to see you back again. Hope it continues.
Once a victim in NZ, you stay a victim. Labour’s policy of keeping offenders out of prison and out of pocket. Wholesale unfairness from many Judges and I speak from experience. Make sure your representation pleas poverty if you are the victim.
Judges, especially in the lower courts, are influenced two much by politics of the day. Punishment no longer appears to fit the crime.
Courts should be run at extended hours to clear the backlog. The family court is a joke, bogged down by protection orders (a large component) made up on false pretences; with no consequences. Barristers (and so must be the court judges) are aware of this, however its too much of a money spinner for them to challenge the status quo.
Interestingly, most of the hold up in court (not counting jury trials) are the judges themselves. While the judges roll into court at 10am, the wheels of the justice system have already been rolling for hours. Prisoners in the holding cells, registrars running around, security on the doors, everything. Judges roll in at their leisure, nevermind the hoards of people waiting for them and begin their day, do about an hours worth of work and then declare it’s time for a break.
I saw a video clip of some idiot protester in Germany who had glued himself to the road. Instead if trying to unglue him they just dug up the piece of road around him and let him go on his way, road and all. Priceless!
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