Southland<\/a>.<\/p>\nHe was charged with assaulting her after two separate incidents in September and October. Boulter was released on bail and was ordered not to have any contact with his victim \u2013 and to remain at his approved address in Southland.<\/p>\n
To avoid any further contact with her abuser, Montgomerie moved back to her father\u2019s home on Great Barrier Island.<\/p>\n
On Boxing Day, Boulter breached his bail conditions and travelled to Auckland to try to find Montgomerie. On New Year\u2019s Eve he sent her a message saying he was going to take his own life. Four days later he sent a second message threatening to kill her.<\/p>\n
On January 17, Boulter booked a one-way ferry ticket to Great Barrier Island under a false name. He arrived at 11.30am and made his way to Montgomerie\u2019s father\u2019s home.<\/p>\n
He waited until it was dark and then entered the house and hid under Montgomerie\u2019s bed.<\/p>\n
She was at the house with a male friend, her 7-year-old brother and his friend.<\/p>\n
When Montgomerie and the other man went to bed, Boulter struck. He hit the man on the back of the head with a hard object, continuing the assault when the man fell to the floor.<\/p>\n
Montgomerie begged Boulter to stop and, in response, he hit her in the head. He hit the man repeatedly until he was unconscious and then chased after Montgomerie, who had run for help.<\/p>\n
He caught the 21-year-old and dangled her over a balcony by her leg and hair. He dragged her back up and rendered her unconscious by punching her in the back with his fist and kneeing her in the head.<\/p>\n
Armed with \u201ca weapon resembling a thistle grubber\u201d, Boulter took Montgomerie from the house.<\/p>\n
Dragged, abused, threatened<\/p>\n
For 15 hours and during a fierce storm, he held Montgomerie \u2013 wearing only a singlet and pyjama bottoms \u2013 in isolated bush.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt times you dragged her across undulating terrain in the bush \u2026 you abused her physically over this period. That abuse included physical attacks and strangulation that led to serious injuries. Your intent in doing so was to cause really serious harm to her,\u201d said Justice Paul Heath at Boulter\u2019s sentencing.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter all of that, Ms Montgomerie was able to persuade you to dispose of a weapon by throwing it into a stream and to walk together towards the wharf to escape. Later in the day, searchers located the two of you. Ms Montgomerie\u2019s ordeal finally came to an end.\u201d<\/p>\n
Justice Heath said Boulter\u2019s offending \u201cinvolved a pre-conceived plan to travel almost the full length of this country to confront\u201d his victim.<\/p>\n
Another woman attacked<\/p>\n
In 2020, Boulter was back before the courts after offending against a second woman.<\/p>\n
The woman was a friend of Boulter\u2019s sister in Southland, who he started messaging and soon became obsessed with.<\/p>\n
He became aggressive and threatening, he stalked her and he threatened to kill her.<\/p>\n
On one occasion, he went to her home and later threatened his sister that he would return with a sawn-off shotgun.<\/p>\n
On another occasion, he assaulted the woman and \u201cadvised her to kill herself\u201d.<\/p>\n
Boulter was sentenced to three years and two months on seven charges of threatening to kill, contravening a protection order, assault with intent to injure and causing harm by digital communication.<\/p>\n
He was refused parole a number of times \u2013 including when the board learned he had not undertaken any rehabilitation programmes in relation to his offending.<\/p>\n
But by April 2023, Boulter managed to convince the board he could be released safely back into the community.<\/p>\n
Parole Board panel convenor Mary More noted Boulter\u2019s \u201cserious\u201d conviction history.<\/p>\n
Alongside the Montgomerie kidnapping and stalking, there were a raft of convictions for \u201cother violence, kidnapping and burglary\u201d.<\/p>\n
For six months, Boulter was ordered to live at an approved address, not to consume alcohol or illicit drugs, not to contact any victims of his offending and to disclose all details about any intimate relationship that commences, resumes, or terminates to his probation officer.<\/p>\n
He was not subject to any parole conditions when he murdered the woman in Parklands.<\/p>\n
Al Williams is an Open Justice reporter for the New Zealand Herald, based in Christchurch. He has worked in daily and community titles in New Zealand and overseas for the last 16 years. Most recently he was editor of the Hauraki-Coromandel Post, based in Whangamat\u0101. He was previously deputy editor of the Cook Islands News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boulter developed \u201can unhealthy fixation\u201d with the woman and once he was released, he started a \u201csignificant electronic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16489,89,90680,1061,4487,90934,1668,1364,78,61094,90933,4275,89505,111,43,139,69,1118,90,90681,4517,90935,90932,72230,68236,14005,20424,102,1354],"class_list":["post-132346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-admits","tag-attack","tag-boulter","tag-children","tag-christchurch","tag-disturbing","tag-front","tag-her","tag-in","tag-knife","tag-lover","tag-murder","tag-nathan","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-on","tag-parklands","tag-past","tag-pounced","tag-spurned","tag-stabbed","tag-stalker","tag-times","tag-violent","tag-with","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}