Lawyer Ron Mansfield, KC, acted for the defence. Photo \/ NZH<\/p>\n
The lawyers claimed the judge \u201cran roughshod\u201d over and \u201cshut down\u201d defence evidence, resulting in a substantial miscarriage of justice.<\/p>\n
The Crown argued against the appeal, saying that while the trial, which spanned three months, was not perfect, the outcome was solid and right.<\/a><\/p>\n After considering all the information before him, Justice Cameron Mander dismissed the appeals against convictions and sentence for Danny Jaz.<\/p>\n He allowed appeals for Roberto Jaz against three convictions of making a visual intimate recording.<\/p>\n He ruled that the quashing of the convictions did not make any difference to the rapist\u2019s end sentence.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen viewed overall, I do not consider the final 17-year sentence is required to be adjusted. The quashing of three convictions for those charges does not materially affect the appellant\u2019s overall criminal culpability or have any discernible impact upon the appropriateness of the ultimate effective sentence imposed,\u201d he ruled.<\/p>\n \u201cHis convictions on those charges are quashed. No order is made for a retrial on those charges.\u201d<\/p>\n The District Court sentencing <\/p>\n In the District Court, Judge Paul Mabey described the Jaz brothers<\/a> as \u201carrogant\u201d and \u201centitled\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cThe level of your offending is unknown in this country … you helped yourself to young women with callous disregard for their rights and their dignity,\u201d he said at sentencing.<\/p>\n \u201cYou should both be of no doubt that you\u2019ve severely damaged all of your victims by your predatory and heartless offending, driven by arrogance, misguided self-belief, and a complete lack of respect for the rights of those you\u2019ve offended against.<\/p>\n \u201cNeither of you showed any remorse \u2026 you are sexual predators. Perhaps misogynistic attitudes and the patriarchal approach to life within your family may have engendered an unhealthy attitude to women.<\/p>\n \u201cYou make conscious decisions to exploit and abuse your victims \u2026 You were men in your 30s \u2026 what occurred was a continuous course of conduct over a period of three-and-a-half years.\u201d<\/p>\n Both pleaded guilty to several offences at the start of their trial. They have not disputed those convictions.<\/p>\n Anna Leask is a senior journalist who covers national crime and justice. She joined the Herald in 2008 and has worked as a journalist for 20 years with a particular focus on family and gender-based violence, child abuse, sexual violence, homicides, mental health and youth crime. She writes, hosts and produces the award-winning podcast A Moment In Crime, released monthly on nzherald.co.nz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the same day, Roberto Jaz was sentenced to 17 years behind bars for offending against eight women.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9092,95,6375,17704,20438,1121,1550,50545,13619,1349,36979,8456,305,42,5036,217973,1743,5035,43,1118,32318,5763,17703,82789,199,165,61,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-425016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-against","tag-and","tag-appeal","tag-assault","tag-brothers","tag-case","tag-centre","tag-christchurchs","tag-convictions","tag-court","tag-drink","tag-fresh","tag-have","tag-headlines","tag-hooch","tag-jaz","tag-launched","tag-mama","tag-news","tag-of","tag-predator","tag-sentence","tag-sexual","tag-spiking","tag-take","tag-their","tag-to","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425016","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=425016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Justice Cameron Mander. Photo \/ Pool\/ Iain McGregor\/The Press<\/p>\n
Judge Paul Mabey KC. Photo \/ George Heard<\/p>\n