Police seal off a crime scene at Milford Beach on Auckland’s North Shore in January 2008. A couple parked at the beach had been attacked in the early hours of the morning by several men who hit them over the head with a metal bar and robbed them. Both victims fled the scene with serious lacerations to their heads. Four young men aged 18–21 were later charged with the attack – and with an attack on another couple later that night. They pleaded guilty two days into their trial, and received prison sentences ranging from 9½ years with no non-parole period to 14 years with a minimum non-parole period of eight years. The mother of one of the offenders was jailed for four months for concealing the bloodstained metal weapons used in the attack.
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by Mike Millett
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