Shooting a sawn-off rifle near a playground and busy farmers' market has landed a gang member in prison.
Cody James Fane was sentenced in the Rotorua District Court yesterday to three years seven months in prison on a charge of discharging a firearm with reckless disregard or intent to injure, and two breach of bail charges.
His charges relate to an incident on April 22, 2017, when at 10am he was in Rotorua's Kuirau Park wearing black clothing with the Mangu Kaha gang patch on it.
The summary of facts said there were "hundreds of members of the public" attending the market at the time, including children.
While there, two members of the rival Mongrel Mob saw and approached Fane, as well as two other men who are still before the courts.