The sentencing of a man convicted for posing as a police officer to rob businesses has been delayed due to a "contemptuous and sarcastic" probation report.
Labour Arepa Tauariki appeared at the Auckland District Court today to be sentenced on charges of pretending to be a police officer.
However, his lawyer Robin Brown asked Judge Thomas Everitt to remand the sentencing so that another report could be written - and from another writer.
"There were glaring omissions of positive aspects to his [Tauariki's] character, which weren't referred to in the report - it was all negative reporting," Mr Brown told APNZ.
Mr Brown said Tauariki's mother Mary was planning to make a complaint to the probation services about the author of the report, who she described as "racist".