{"id":149024,"date":"2025-11-23T03:03:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T03:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/149024\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T03:03:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T03:03:04","slug":"geoffery-miller-sent-to-prison-for-historical-whangarei-sex-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/149024\/","title":{"rendered":"Geoffery Miller sent to prison for historical Whang\u0101rei sex crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"

He was found guilty by a jury earlier this year of 12 charges, including rape and supplying methamphetamine<\/a> to one of his victims.<\/p>\n

Miller\u2019s first round of offending occurred when he was 14 years old and repeatedly sexually abused a girl<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The court heard<\/a> he violated her with objects and, on one occasion, he plied her with alcohol until she passed out, and then raped her.<\/p>\n

Decades later, Miller\u2019s sexual offending continued but he had a new victim.<\/p>\n

Miller repeatedly touched that girl sexually and gave her cannabis. <\/p>\n

He also supplied her with methamphetamine and smoked it with her.<\/p>\n

Miller touched her inappropriately and spoke to her sexually as a form of payment for the drug.<\/p>\n

Both victims, now adults, read their victim impact statements to Miller while he stood in the dock at his recent sentencing. <\/p>\n

The first victim said that when she was younger, she had been scared of Miller\u2019s dark moods and he was intolerable to be around.<\/p>\n

She said she felt safer on the streets, in the dark.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had to grow up real fast to survive you,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

For years, she lived with post-traumatic stress disorder, substance abuse and had more than 20 clinical bouts of depression as a result of his offending against her. <\/p>\n

When she encountered Miller in her adult life, she became triggered by something he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou stood in my kitchen one day, in front of my teenage kids, and said, \u2018I\u2019m really proud of my life\u2019,\u201d the woman recalled.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose words triggered me and sickened me. How could you be proud of what you did to me?<\/p>\n

\"GeofferyGeoffery Miller was verbally and physically abusive to the first victim. Photo \/ supplied<\/p>\n

\u201cAll the locked boxes in my brain, all the tucked-up pain came out piece by piece.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat event is what brought us here today. Your words set me free. I finally felt the courage to stand up tall and do the right thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The second victim<\/a> also lived a life with mental health challenges linked to Miller\u2019s offending and battled a drug addiction, which took hold after he had supplied her with drugs when she was younger.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m constantly living the same thing, repetitive memories take over my mind that I never asked for,\u201d she said in her victim impact statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had so much more potential than what I\u2019ve been and what I am now. I don\u2019t remember ever feeling happy or, let alone, good enough. Instead, I felt like a worthless piece of meat.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her statement had some parting words for Miller.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope you f****** rot in sh**.\u201d<\/p>\n

Continued denial of the offending<\/p>\n

Crown lawyer Danette Cole said both victims had reported Miller was also physically violent towards them.<\/p>\n

\u201cBoth victims came forward and said how they thought their life would turn out differently, but because of the offending their lives have taken a turn for the worse,\u201d Cole said.<\/p>\n

Miller\u2019s lawyer, Chris Muston, made no oral submissions at the hearing.<\/p>\n

Judge Keith de Ridder<\/a> noted Miller had denied the offending when speaking to pre-sentence report writers.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou make no admission whatsoever of any offending and deny any offending of any sort,\u201d the judge said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe report touches briefly on your upbringing and your employment history with some sense of self-pity arising from, what you say, were the actions taken against you by the victims\u2019 families.\u201d<\/p>\n

Judge de Ridder said the offending, particularly with the first victim, was premeditated, violent and intrusive.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were threats made to her, in particular if she told anybody about this offending. And the jury obviously also accepted her evidence that you would become physically and verbally abusive towards her.\u201d<\/p>\n

The judge considered the act of supplying drugs to a child to facilitate offending against the second victim as an aggravating feature.<\/p>\n

He sentenced Miller to five years and seven months for the rape of the first victim, and imposed an additional cumulative four\u2011year term for offending against the second.<\/p>\n

Miller was sent to prison for nine years and seven months.<\/p>\n

Shannon Pitman is a Whang\u0101rei-based reporter for Open Justice covering courts in the Te Tai Tokerau region. She is of Ng\u0101puhi\/ Ng\u0101ti P\u016bkenga descent and has worked in digital media for the past five years. She joined NZME in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He was found guilty by a jury earlier this year of 12 charges, including rape and supplying methamphetamine…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6129,2082,99602,21081,17935,111,43,139,69,8442,13743,7680,61,1869],"class_list":{"0":"post-149024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-crimes","9":"tag-for","10":"tag-geoffery","11":"tag-historical","12":"tag-miller","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-prison","18":"tag-sent","19":"tag-sex","20":"tag-to","21":"tag-whangrei"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149024","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=149024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}