For Immediate Release:
Youngest offenders to be given preventive detention now identified online
An online database which indentifies sentences for New Zealand’s most serious criminals has a new section that
indentifies the youngest offenders to be given preventive detention in New Zealand. The offenders listed include
notorious gang associated rapists Cedric Hapakuku and Dion Matthews as well as convicted rapist and murderer Hayden
Joseph Taylor.
The online Sentencing Tracker was started more than two years ago by its author/editor Ross Crosby to help indentify
sentences for some of New Zealand’s worst offenders including serious violent offenders, sex offenders and
methamphetamine importers.
This Sentencing Tracker was intended to inform the public but also as a useful resource for journalists and other
researchers. When it first started up it showed longest minimum non-parole periods imposed in New Zealand including for
murderers Taffy Hotene, Antonie Dixon and multiple rapist Darryl Johnson who are all now deceased. The Sensible
Sentencing Trust has got public feedback that its website is a useful resource for certain deceased offenders.
“Normally once an offender has died we would pull their file from the online database however we are keeping some files
of specific murderers and sex offenders who have died online such as Hotene, Dixon and Johnson because of the large
amount of public interest in these cases.”
For more information see the Sentencing Tracker on the SST website;
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