Manifestly inexcessive!

The Herald reports:

Serial Auckland sex offender Luca Fairgray‘s latest sentence was “manifestly excessive”, his lawyer has argued in the Court of Appeal this morning.

Fairgray, 22, was found guilty of three charges of sexual conduct with a young person by a jury in February.

In March, he was jailed for 4.5 years for crimes against the 13-year-old girl.

Judge Evangelos Thomas said at sentencing that the victim would be dealing with the effects of Fairgray’s offending for the rest of her life.

Unbeknown to the jury in February, Fairgray had previously been convicted of 10 charges for assaults against six teenage girls, including rape and sexual conduct with a person under 16.

I’d say the sentence is the opposite of manifestly excessive.