A 21-year-old woman abducted from a Tauranga Burger King drive-through last month confronted her abductor in court, who apologised for "destroying" her life.
Neihana Jeremy Rangitonga, 35, who has been jailed for four years, quietly listened as the tearful Mount Maunganui woman described how the terrifying attack in the early hours of May 10 had shattered her self-confidence and feelings of personal safety.
"I don't feel safe any more," she said. "I have never felt so self-conscious and uncomfortable in my own skin. I look in the mirror and the person looking back at me is not me - the person I see is a stranger," she said.
Rangitonga, who earlier pleaded guilty to one charge each of abducting a woman for sexual purposes and threatens to kill, was sentenced in the Tauranga District Court yesterday.
About 3am on May 10 the heavily intoxicated victim walked to Burger King to buy food at the fast-food drive-through but was refused service as she was on foot.