No one should get to do 11 robberies

Stuff reports:

A serial bank robber has gone to jail for his 11th robbery, after targeting a currency exchange in central Wellington.

Why do we keep letting him out? `

The robbery shut down part of Wellington’s busy Lambton Quay on February 8 this year after Steven Kurt Peri​ had demanded money, ending up with about $25,000 in foreign currency, a large amount of it Australian. …

Peri, 43, had gone into the store about 9.17am, pulled a pistol from his waistband and pointed it at the first teller demanding money. She hurried away out the back, so Peri pointed it at a second teller and racked the slide on the pistol.

Peri was previously sentenced in the High Court in Auckland in 2015 to four years and 11 months jail for the aggravated robbery of the Henderson BNZ. The judge then declined to give him preventive detention saying that intensive supervision could help him rehabilitate.

The Judge was wrong.

That 2015 robbery was a second strike offence. If Labour and Greens had not repealed the Three Strikes law, he would have got 14 years for his 11th aggravated robbery, instead of the four and a half years he did get. Thanks to the Government, he will be able to do a 12th aggravated robbery by 2025, rather than 2037.