A 17-year-old youth jailed for assaulting a man killed by a fellow teenager was on bail for other violent offending at the time.
Eastlee Harmer-Gemmell, of Flaxmere, was aged 16 and facing unrelated charges of injuring with intent to injure and theft when he took part in an attack on 40-year-old Kelly Donner on March 4, it was revealed in Napier District Court today.
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Harmer-Gemmell was sentenced to four years and two months' today jail by Judge Bridget Mackintosh, six days after 14-year-old Haami Hanara was found guilty of murdering Donner in a stabbing which ended the attack Harmer-Gemmell had also taken part in.
Harmer-Gemmell had pleaded guilty to both charges, and in relation to the attack on Donner charges of intentionally causing grievous bodily harm and burglary of the Flax Bar and Grill compound outside which the man died in a pool of blood.