Fraser, D - 23.02.12rdtd
Fraser, D - 23.02.12rdtd
Fraser, D - 23.02.12rdtd
1. Mr Fraser, with [withheld] in support, appears for first consideration of parole. He is serving
a notional single sentence of 9 years imprisonment for manslaughter and wounding with
intent to cause grievous bodily harm. While he may have completed the punitive aspect of
that sentence, he cannot be released before his statutory release date on 20 February
2018 unless the Board is satisfied on reasonable grounds he poses no undue risk to the
safety of the community within the roughly six years remaining on his sentence having
regard to the nature of any likely further offending, any support and supervision available in
the community, and the virtue of him going back into the community as a law-abiding
citizen.
2. Mr Fraser, at 22 years of age, is in prison for his part in seriously violent offending on 25
August 2007 followed by a lethal knife attack on 8 December the same year. Unless he
understands what brought him to offend in such violent ways, and also understands the
seriousness of his offending and the extent to which it will not be tolerated by a community
entitled to protect itself, and unless he takes effective steps to deal with that or shows how
he intends to do so safely in the future, there is good reason to suppose he may continue to
offend in an unfortunately familiar way.
3. Against that background, Mr Fraser has spent the past three years or so in prison affording
some measure of justice to his victims and absorbing the consequences of his offending.
He is low security. He is generally well behaved.
4. Mr Fraser's Roc*RoI of 0.47561 puts him at moderate risk of reoffending which may well
have him pose an undue risk to the safety of the community for so long as his offending
issues identified as violence, substance abuse, choice of peers, and anti-social attitudes
are inadequately addressed without appropriate intervention either in prison or, under
suitable stringency, in the community. He is sentence-planned for the Medium Intensity
Rehabilitation Programme [MIRP] and has completed the programme with a good report.
He has also completed follow-up maintenance. He understands how bad habits and mixing
with the wrong people can quickly lead to unmitigated disaster and a lifetime of regret. He
has no stomach for any repetition. In other respects, he offers no approved address for
release as he is subject to deportation and will return to the United Kingdom where his
mother confirms he will be supported by caring and pro-social members of his family.
5. As things stand, with important work done and a sound release plan in place, the Board is
satisfied, on the assumption of full compliance with conditions of release, Mr Fraser poses
no undue risk to the safety of the community. Accordingly, the Board directs his release on
parole on 2 April 2012. From that date until his statutory release date, he will be on
standard conditions and the following special conditions:
(1) To be released into the custody of the Immigration Department or the New
Zealand Police for immediate removal from New Zealand pursuant to Deportation
Order duly served.
(3) Having left New Zealand, not thereafter to return within the term of the sentence.
(4) Not to contact any victim(s) either directly or indirectly at any time.
Judge B Lovegrove
Panel Convenor