Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald
Episode: John MacDonald: Do the crime, do the time. Yeah, right
Description: Police Minister Stuart Nash says, when it comes to sentences for gang members, judges in our courts need to "read the room better". Comments, I think, are just as relevant to other cases. Such as the one which wound up in the High Court in Christchurch yesterday with 18-year-old Khanye Te HeuHeu being sent to prison for five-and-a-half years for killing 16-year-old Zion Purukamu at a birthday party at an Airbnb property in Fendalton. A crime, by the way, that this guy has apparently shown no remorse for and a crime he only admitted to...