A man who avoided a rape charge for eight years after fleeing New Zealand was re-sentenced today, and will spend longer in jail.
Fatu Seti was this year found guilty by a jury of raping a 19-year-old woman on Waiheke Island in 2005.
In the Auckland District Court earlier this week he was sentenced to four years and 8 1/2 months' jail. But Seti had to be taken back to court today as Judge Grant Fraser said he had made an error when making various additions and deductions.
Seti was re-sentenced today to five years and 8 1/2 months' jail, as the judge had intended.
His court file included references from Samoa's prime minister, speaker of the house and police chief.
