25 Oct 2018

Law change needed for victims?

From The Panel, 4:29 pm on 25 October 2018

There was a lot of listener reaction yesterday to the story about the mental health nurse fearful that the man who assaulted her is being returned to where she lives, in a less secure unit. Wendy Hamer was beaten, stabbed and scaled with boiling water. Her attacked was found not guilty by reason of insanity.

A listener asked why New Zealand can't adopt the same laws as other countries, where they have verdicts like 'guilty but insane'. We ask the panelists if they agree and get expert opinion from lawyer Jonathan Krebs.