Kidnapping a man, taking him to cemeteries and Whakarewarewa hot pools while making multiple threats to kill him has led to a two-year two-month jail term.
Te Rangipuawhe Newton Maika, 53, was sentenced in the Rotorua District Court this afternoonby Judge Maree Mackenzie who said his victim had been terrorised and traumatised.
Maika had earlier pleaded guilty to kidnapping the man at Rotorua over a three-hour period starting in the early hours of March 16.
One threat had been made as Maika forced the man to pray out loud by a Whakarewarewa pool telling him "if your prayer ain't good enough I'm going to kill you and you won't even know what happened, everything will just go blank".
He had told his victim how quickly a person would boil if they fell into the water and when he saw a person in a pool, told him "I've just kidnapped this fulla".