A judge of the Superior Court of New Zealand sentenced this Friday a 15-year-old adolescent to life imprisonment for having murdered a man with a knife during an attack that occurred in January last year in the northland regionin the North Island of the oceanic country.
The sentence once morest the minor, of unrevealed identity, reviewable following ten years, comes following a jury found him guilty of killing with thirteen stab wounds to Bram Willems22, in a judicial process that took place last year.
Judge Timothy Brewerof the High Court of the northern town of Whangareisaid today when reading the sentence that the minor had not attacked Willems with the intention of killing him, according to what was published Radio New Zealand.
“I think he just exploded in anger and started stabbing. However, I’m sure you had a conscious appreciation that what you were doing might very well kill Mr. Willems and you went ahead anyway,” Judge Brewer said.
The murder of Willems, who had gone out with the minor and three of his cousins in a car and provided alcohol and drugs to this group, occurred following the aggressor accused the victim of having acted inappropriately in front of one of his relatives.
severe sentence
The sentence once morest the minor -the most severe that is applied in New Zealand since the death penalty was abolished in 1989 for serious crimes such as murder, terrorism or drug trafficking – means that he must spend at least ten years in prison before being able to apply for parole.
During this notorious process, attorney Ron Mansfield requested a sentence of five or six years once morest his client, arguing that it would be unfair to apply the life sentence used to punish adults who commit murder, according to the New Zealand Herald.
Mansfield recalled that this week the Court of Appeals has addressed the dispute over whether life imprisonment should be applied to minors and insisted that the matter must be addressed by the Parliament of New Zealand, added the medium. (EFE)
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