2007 New Zealand Anti-terror Raids - Sentencing

Sentencing

On 24 May 2012 Tame Iti and Te Rangikaiwhiria Kemara were both sentenced to concurrent terms of two and a half years in prison by Justice Rodney Hansen. Tame Iti and Te Rangikaiwhiria Kemara had applied for a discharge without conviction, but this was refused by Justice Hanson on the grounds that he found no unfairness or impropriety in the surveillance evidence which was used during their trial. On 25 May 2012 Iti's lawyer Russell Fairbrother announced that he will be lodging an appeal stating, "It's probably the end of the beginning, there's a long way to go still."

Urs Signer and Emily Bailey were remanded on bail, and sentenced to nine months' home detention on 21 June 2012. Lawyer Russell Fairbrother immediately lodged an appeal against the sentences, but in October 2012 the courts turned it down. Iti's son Wairere Iti said his father was "not overly surprised", and they may take the case to the Supreme Court.

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