A 77% sentence discount

Stuff reports:

A teenager who raped a woman he had never met at knifepoint in Albert Park has been sentenced to two years and two months in jail.

The now-18 year-old appeared at the Auckland District Court on Friday having earlier pleaded guilty to charges of rape, threatening to kill and two charges of aggravated robbery.

The teenager’s lawyer asked for discounts amounting to 110% and an end sentence of home detention, so her client can continue with sex offender rehabilitation.

How can you ask for 110% discount? Does that mean they actually get rewarded for raping someone?

But Judge Claire Ryan refused on the basis it would be too lenient. While she granted discounts of 77%, she sentenced him to prison and called his offending “disgusting and disgraceful”.

A 77% discount is massive. National plans to change the law to maximise discounts to 40%.

She started with a sentence of 11 years and one month but provided a total discount of 77%, taking time off for early guilty plea, previous clean record, efforts at rehabilitation, youth, remorse and time on electronically monitored bail.

From 11 years down to barely two years. There will be more victims.