UPDATE / 12.20pm: Tame Iti and Te Rangikaiwhiria Kemara jailed for two and a half years. Urs Signer and Emily Bailey to be sentenced in June, with an indication they will get nine months' home detention.
UPDATE / 12.20pm: Tame Iti and Te Rangikaiwhiria Kemara jailed for two and a half years.
Urs Signer and Emily Bailey to be sentenced in June, with an indication they will get nine months' home detention.
Uproar in packed Auckland High Court as Justice Rodney Hansen imposed sentence.
Maori chanting broke out and Iti mouthed under his breath to Justice Hansen as jail sentence imposed.
Crown prosecutor Ross Burns earlier asked for the maximum jail term of four years.
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The Crown wants the Auckland High Court to impose the maximum jail sentence for the Urewera 4, earlier found guilty of serious firearms charges.
Justice Rodney Hansen is about to deliver his sentence on Tame Iti, Emily Bailey, Urs Signer and Te Rangikaiwhiria Kemara.
Crown prosecutor Ross Burns told Justice Hansen the four trained others to commit serious offences and should receive the maximum penalty.
The four were found guilty by an Auckland High Court jury in March of firearms offending at the top end of the Arms Act.
After the jury failed to agree on whether the four were part of a criminal organisation, the Crown decided against seeking a retrial.
Had a retrial gone ahead it would have triggered another lengthy and expensive round of legally-aided protest by defence lawyers.
Despite defence rhetoric and some far-fetched allegations against the police and the Crown, the Urewera 4 hid behind their right to silence.
They continue to refuse to explain to the public what it was they were up to in the Ureweras with guns and bombs back in 2007.
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