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The Parole Board has declined an application for home detention from convicted rapist Peter McNamara.
The millionaire Mt Maunganui businessman has served two years of a seven-year prison sentence for the 1989 pack rape of a 20-year-old woman with former police officers Brad Shipton and Bob Schollum.
The board said the nature of his offending and the views of the victim had been taken into account in declining the application.
The ruling, released to the Herald last night, said home detention would not assist McNamara's rehabilitation and reintegration into the community, and there was an inability to have "any meaningful restorative justice outcome".
His approaching parole date was also a factor in the board's decision.
These factors were said to "easily outweigh" McNamara's apparent lack of risk, supportive home environment, positive prison record and his support in the community.
McNamara is to be considered for parole in November, and the board said it was appropriate that the home-detention application remain before it as an option for any future release proposal.
He was initially granted home detention on August 1 but had approval revoked because the board failed to advise his victim in time for the hearing. The hearing was rescheduled to allow her to make submissions.
McNamara fathered a child from prison by allegedly smuggling his sperm out to impregnate his partner, Joanne Percy, and then paid for prison escorts so he could attend the birth in January.
