NATIONAL NEWS:- Restrained after attempting to punch court staff

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The sentencing of the man behind the 12-hour standoff in Onekawa, Napier ended in a scrape, with Hemi Taylor having to be dragged out of the dock by court security.

Hemi Taylor, 26, appeared before Judge Tony Adeane in Napier District Court on Tuesday.

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The sentencing ended in a scrape, with five court security officers involved in restraining Taylor after he refused to leave the dock.

Taylor attempted to punch the officers, and ended up on the ground in the process.

The Judge sentenced Taylor, who pled guilty to charges of unlawful possession of a firearm and discharging a firearm, to two years and five months for possession and 18 months for discharging the firearm, to be served concurrently.

He said mitigating factors in the sentence included Taylor’s early plea.

However, he said the involvement of an infant in the case was serious, citing a similar situation in which a two-year-old girl was killed by her parent.

He described the offending, which resulted in a 12 hour lock down in the Napier suburb of Onekawa before Taylor emerged with a baby, as serious.

He said Taylor’s remorse was still to be tested.

He said Taylor was paranoid at the time of the stand-off, after he had consumed methamphetamine he was supposed to transport from Napier to Gisborne for the Mongrel Mob.

On June 24 he and his partner visited her mother, where he took out a cut off shot-gun and yelled gang slogans.

By the time he, along with his partner and child, returned home to Alexander Ave, police had been alerted.

The resulting stand-off lasted 12 hours ending at 1.30am, when Taylor agreed to surrender.

SOURCE:- OTAGO DAILY TIMES
Featured Image- Hemi Taylor, 26, (STUFF)
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