Daniel Waka Minogue, 44, appeared in the Dunedin District Court yesterday after earlier pleading guilty to wilful damage and two charges of breaching release conditions.
The court heard that on October 25, 2019, the defendant was sentenced in Christchurch to imprisonment on a raft of charges, including unlawful sexual connection with a woman and kidnapping.
At the time, Stuff reported most of the allegations related to Minogue taking a woman to a remote part of the Waimakariri riverbed.
There he threatened to bash her head with a rock if she tried to get out of the car.
The woman believed he sexually violated her in the course of a search for drugs, Stuff reported.
On October 8 last year, Minogue was released from the Otago Corrections Facility on a slew of conditions.
In the days after his release, he reported to Community Corrections as directed, but did not turn up after that.
About a month later, he twice failed to attend a drug and alcohol test.
Minogue said he had been at a funeral, but could not explain why he did not tell his probation officer about it.
He had previously been breached for failing to charge his electronic-monitoring ankle bracelet.
Also during his brief taste of freedom, the defendant went to Dunedin Central Police Station at 6.30am before it opened.
The doors were locked so Minogue used the intercom and asked to be let in.
He was told to leave and come back in a few hours when the station was open.
But instead of waiting, he tried to pry the glass doors open with his foot, causing the glass to break.
Yesterday, Judge David Robinson sentenced Minogue to three months’ imprisonment.
He hoped it would be a "short, sharp reminder" of the importance of complying with the conditions of his sentence.
Because of his time spent in custody on remand, Minogue will be released immediately.
