Longest sentences

The Dom Post reports:

A new online database offers the public free access to sentencing histories of New Zealand’s worst criminals.

So far it has 90 names on three lists: Those serving non-parole periods of more than 18 years, preventive detention sentences for sex offenders of 11 years or more, and young people aged more than 17 given long, fixed sentences.

The database includes double murderer Graeme Burton, his crimes, victims, criminal and gang affiliations, parole and release dates, links to news stories on him, and copies of Parole Board decisions.

Creator Ross Crosby said he set up the database for the Sensible Sentencing Trust, which he joined five years ago as an 18-year-old disillusioned with New Zealand’s justice system.

The former Wellington High School pupil, now living in Adelaide, helped maintain the trust’s databases on violent and sexual offenders, and was now building up the new database to track the sentencing histories of our worst offenders across a range of crimes.

The Trust’s database has been online for some years. I check it out often. What is new, is the listing of the worst offenders by length of sentence.