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The woman attacked by Pukekohe rapist Roger Kahui carries a remote for a monitored alarm whenever she is home alone after suffering her "worst nightmare come true" at his hands.
"What Kahui subjected me to that night is way beyond anything I have ever experienced in my life. It was and continues to be my worst nightmare come true," she said in a statement read to the court during Kahui's sentencing yesterday.
"I still find it hard to comprehend and accept what happened at times. I opened the door that night thinking I was safe, that what happened to me could never happen to me. I was proved wrong."
Kahui was sentenced to preventive detention for the four-hour ordeal during which he forced his way into the woman's home before repeatedly raping her in June last year.
He then kidnapped her but the handcuffed woman escaped and ran to a petrol station where police were called and a hunt was launched for a man police described as a "filthy savage".
Despite being found guilty in July of 26 charges, including rape and kidnapping, Kahui yesterday maintained his innocence.
Justice Hugh Williams ordered a minimum non-parole period of 16 years - one more than even the Crown had asked for.
The woman's family were pleased with her brother saying "Yes, you piece of shit" and throwing his hands into the air at the sentence.
Justice Williams said Kahui had shown no remorse, no willingness to rehabilitate himself and was likely to reoffend in the future.
He said the only likely reason Kahui's list of convictions was not longer than the 130 he already had was because he had been in jail for nearly half of his life.
"Society needs to be protected from you for a long time."
Former Detective Senior Sergeant Neil Grimstone said there was little chance of Kahui getting out again.
"His words are that he'll probably die in prison. Well, let's hope that comes back to haunt him," he said.
Mr Grimstone also praised the victim's courage throughout the ordeal and in the months following when she gave evidence that help convict Kahui.
"Through her courage she has ensured that no other woman in New Zealand will ever have to undergo or be the subject of such an attack by this man again because in effect the judge has locked him up and thrown the key away. You couldn't ask for a better result."
The recovering rape victim said she had not felt safe in her own home since the attack.
She was always terrified someone might come to her door and she always carried the remote for a monitored alarm when she was alone.
"I feel like I'm living in a prison, admittedly one I can leave at any time I want to, but a prison none the less. I guess the one question I have is why.
"I don't think I will ever have that question answered [by Kahui] with a degree of truthfulness that will satisfy me."
