\u201cThat information includes the influence of [her] at the time, who clearly got involved in the drug dealing,\u201d Judge Andy Nicholls said. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere is reference to her ongoing influence at the time on your behaviour.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to the summary of facts, Havill arranged for the importation of MDMA, cocaine and ketamine, concealed inside 48 packages containing nuts and British confectionery. <\/p>\n
The packages, which were imported between February 2023 and December 2024, were sent to several addresses in Paek\u0101k\u0101riki and Pauatahanui, north of Wellington. <\/p>\n
Initially, they were mailed to \u201cJamie Ferguson\u201d or a slight variation of that name, before switching to \u201cD Hamil\u201d for the later imports.<\/p>\n
A police search of Havill\u2019s three cellphones showed he had regular contact with associates and supplied them with drugs. <\/p>\n
Police say it\u2019s unclear how many times Havill met with his customers, although it\u2019s likely these offers later became actual supplies. <\/p>\n
The summary says the drugs netted nearly $200,000, with the bulk of the funds being deposited into international cryptocurrency exchanges to buy more drugs.<\/p>\n
A hard, highly unusual childhood<\/p>\n
While the summary of facts didn\u2019t mention the woman, at sentencing, Judge Nicholls noted, \u201cthere\u2019s enough references in the material to make me uneasy about ignoring the topic\u201d. <\/p>\n
He also referred to Havill\u2019s background, although he suppressed the details, telling Havill it was clear \u201cthat you had a hard, highly unusual childhood, not of your choosing\u201d. <\/p>\n
And finally, there was also the offer of a $10,000 payment, which the judge accepted was also unusual. <\/p>\n
Judge Nicholls said he understood this could be seen as a way of buying a sentencing outcome, but that wasn\u2019t the case. Instead, it was Havill\u2019s way of disgorging the profits from his offending. <\/p>\n
Prison or home detention? <\/p>\n
But the question for Judge Nicholls was whether he should send Havill to jail, or accept Surridge\u2019s submission and impose a non-custodial sentence, so Havill, who is now drug-free, could follow his dreams of becoming a social worker or a paramedic. <\/p>\n
But for that to happen, the judge had to reduce the earlier indication of seven and a half years for the MDMA offending, with a two-year uplift for the other drug offending. <\/p>\n
Crown prosecutor Islay Aitchison said she wouldn\u2019t go so far as to say Havill shouldn\u2019t go to prison, but acknowledged there was a significant amount of personal material before the court. <\/p>\n
Ultimately, the judge decided not to jail the now 27-year-old. <\/p>\n
After reducing the starting point and applying discounts for the guilty plea, Havill\u2019s age, background and previous good character, as well as the offer of $10,000, Havill received an end sentence of 24 months\u2019 jail, which the judge converted to home detention. <\/p>\n
On charges of importing cocaine, MDMA and ketamine; supplying MDMA; offering to supply MDMA and cocaine; possessing and selling ketamine; and engaging in money laundering, the judge ordered Havill to serve 12 months\u2019 home detention. He also ordered the forfeiture of the $10,000. <\/p>\n
After passing sentence, the judge wished Havill good luck, while Havill\u2019s grandmother, mother and sister cried in the public gallery. <\/p>\n
Catherine Hutton is an Open Justice reporter, based in Wellington. She has worked as a journalist at the Waikato Times and RNZ. Most recently she was working as a media adviser at the Ministry of Justice. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThat information includes the influence of [her] at the time, who clearly got involved in the drug dealing,\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[29508,33524,3371,203302,3401,2082,203303,56779,1334,57876,111,43,139,69,3170,52,4741],"class_list":["post-393466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-200k","tag-avoids","tag-dealer","tag-dillon","tag-drug","tag-for","tag-havill","tag-importation","tag-jail","tag-levi","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-scheme","tag-wellington","tag-young"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393466","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=393466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}