38 years of offending

Stuff reports:

With one final flourish – a one fingered gesture to the sentencing judge – Allan Ivo Greer began a sentence of preventive detention for sexual offending against teenagers.

The sentencing in the High Court in Wellington today was marked by Greer, 52, interrupting, laughing at his victim’s trauma and insults to the judge.

A lovely man, who sounds like an ideal choice for pveventive detention.

The judge said Greer had 153 previous convictions, beginning when he was 14 in the Youth Court, and had been to prison for seven years for sexual violation in 2004.

Justice MacKenzie said those offences showed disturbing similarities to the current charges.

Again, he should have been locked up for good well before now.

He said there was a high risk of Greer reoffending and he had come to the belief the only sentence was preventive detention.

He also imposed a minimum non-parole period of 10 years.

A non parole period of 20 years would be better, but I suspect he will not get out at 10 years, which is good.