{"id":31731,"date":"2025-09-19T16:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T16:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/31731\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T16:00:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T16:00:20","slug":"daniel-danny-livingstone-who-shot-brownie-the-dog-at-a-hamilton-supermarket-is-a-child-rapist-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/31731\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel ‘Danny’ Livingstone, who shot Brownie the dog at a Hamilton supermarket, is a child rapist"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Belinda Feek, Open Justice multimedia journalist in Waikato of \"NZ<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Danny<\/p>\n

\nDanny Livingstone, a convicted child rapist, shot a dog and its owner in the carpark at Hamilton’s Clarence St Pak’nSave in May.
\nPhoto: NZME\n<\/p>\n

The man who shot Brownie the dog in the head in a supermarket car park is a convicted child rapist who later cut off his ankle bracelet, sparking a manhunt.<\/p>\n

Daniel Patrick Livingstone shot the dog after it barked at him and then twice shot its owner in the arm during a confrontation at Pak’nSave Clarence St in Hamilton in May this year.<\/p>\n

Livingstone, also known as Danny Livingstone, abducted and raped a 10-year-old girl in Whang\u0101rei in 2006. He was 19 at the time and was jailed for eight years.<\/p>\n

After serving his full sentence, he was released in 2014 when he became subject to a seven-year Extended Supervision Order (ESO), requiring him to wear an ankle bracelet with a GPS tracker.<\/p>\n

Court-imposed ESOs are used to monitor and manage the long-term risk posed by high-risk sex or violent offenders once released from prison.<\/p>\n

At 3.50am on 6 August 2015, Livingstone removed the bracelet and left it in his Upper Hutt flat as he fled.<\/p>\n

After Corrections was alerted to the fact that he may have absconded, police visited his property three times.<\/p>\n

But without a warrant to enter, it wasn’t until 9am they were able to confirm he was gone.<\/p>\n

However, police had already begun taking steps to find him, increasing their patrols around local schools, and asking the public to keep an eye out for him.<\/p>\n

Police were concerned not only with the threat Livingstone posed to the community, but also to himself, and issued an alert to the country’s media stating he was “a high-risk offender and should not be approached”.<\/p>\n

“If you combine those two, potentially there is a bigger risk,” Detective Inspector Grant Wormald said at the time.<\/p>\n

Livingstone was eventually found the next afternoon near the Naenae shops in the Hutt Valley, around 7km from his home.<\/p>\n

He had been spotted on the Hutt City CCTV camera network, which was monitored at the Lower Hutt police station.<\/p>\n

He had seen a patrol car and tried to run, but ran straight into another unit.<\/p>\n

An earlier report by Stuff said Livingstone, who was not from Wellington and had been there only a short time when he went on the run, had breached his ESO 16 times, mostly for drug use.<\/p>\n

He last appeared before the Parole Board in March 2023 to vary the conditions of his ESO.<\/p>\n

The board discharged his curfew but imposed 12 conditions, including that he not enter any gun shop, possess any firearm, or enter Whang\u0101rei.<\/p>\n

However, the order came to an end in January 2024.<\/p>\n

Young victim’s life ruined<\/p>\n

In a 2006 court judgment, the judge who sentenced Livingstone for the rape and abduction said the victim’s young life had been ruined in a few moments of brutality.<\/p>\n

The judge’s comments indicated Livingstone had misogynistic views and took no responsibility for his offending.<\/p>\n

However, it was noted that he did plead guilty at an early stage.<\/p>\n

A probation officer at the time assessed Livingstone’s risk of reoffending as high and his motivation to change as low.<\/p>\n

Shot dog in supermarket car park<\/p>\n

At his most recent sentencing, the court heard that the shooting of Brownie the dog and her owner played out around 11.45am on 4 May this year.<\/p>\n

Livingstone, now 38, walked past the victim’s car, parked at the supermarket.<\/p>\n

Brownie and the owner’s 9-year-old son were sitting in the vehicle.<\/p>\n

The dog barked at Livingstone, prompting him to pull out an air pistol he had stashed in his pants.<\/p>\n

He shot Brownie, sitting next to the window, in the head, causing her to bark in distress.<\/p>\n

Livingstone was then confronted by the owners and asked why he’d shot the dog, leading to a “heated argument”.<\/p>\n

Livingstone got out his air pistol again and shot one of them twice in his right arm.<\/p>\n

He then fled on foot toward Grantham St, where he was arrested.<\/p>\n

When police searched his backpack, they found the air pistol and a stash of copper-coated pellets.<\/p>\n

Neither the man nor Brownie suffered any injuries from the shots.<\/p>\n

Livingstone appeared before Judge Noel Cocurullo for sentencing after earlier accepting a sentence indication on charges of cruelty to an animal and assaulting a person using a firearm.<\/p>\n

The judge took a starting point of 10 months’ jail, and added a 5 percent uplift for his history.<\/p>\n

After a 20 percent credit for his guilty plea, Livingstone was jailed for eight months.<\/p>\n

However, the judge noted he would soon be released because he had effectively served his time while remanded on bail.<\/p>\n

– This story originally appeared in the New Zealand Herald<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Belinda Feek, Open Justice multimedia journalist in Waikato of Danny Livingstone, a convicted child rapist, shot a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-31731","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-podcasts","13":"tag-public-radio","14":"tag-radio-new-zealand","15":"tag-rnz","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31731","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=31731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}