How stupid would you feel?

If you were on the parole board, and had decided Graeme Burton posed no undue risk to the public, how stupid are you feeling right now? He is on the run, armed. Police have already found a Glock pistol, a .22 rifle, two rifles cut down to pistols, ammunition, knives, batons, a Kevlar helmet, a telescopic sight and a crossbow.

Now he was serving life for murder. That meant the parole board did not have to ever let him out. he let himself out in 1998 when he and three others escaped from Paremoremo. This led to the first ever public deployment of the Special Tactics Group of the Armed Offenders Squad.

That it seems didn’t even lead to him being given a longer sentence or non parole period.

I don’t think you had to be an Einstein to work out his good behaviour in prison for the last two years (not the previous twelve) was purely for the purpose of parole, and not genuine.