King, 53, took responsibility for what happened, had pleaded guilty to a charge of careless driving and was remorseful. He met the woman he struck at a restorative justice conference and had already paid her almost $300 reparation. King was a truck driver, but had been on ACC and was looking at studying a diploma of business management at UCOL, Anderson said. Judge Bruce Northwood said King had sincerely apologised to the woman. She and her family recognised King has suffered too and appreciated him attending the restorative justice meeting. “You told the writer of the [pre-sentence] report that you just weren t paying attention and you should have been concentrating on the road.
The man laughed during a prolonged assault in which he kicked, punched, bit and stomped on his girlfriend, who was six weeks' pregnant with their first child.
The man’s wives, however, do have name suppression. Gill married his first wife in a Sikh ceremony in India in October 2010, with the pair moving to New Zealand soon after. The pair, who have a child together, separated in June 2017. Gill was still in contact with his first wife and their child, when he got in contact with a woman in October 2018 via a matrimonial matchmaking website. They agreed to get married and Gill travelled to India in February 2019 to meet her family and be part of a Sikh marriage ceremony, witnessed by dozens of people, in the Punjab province.
The friend, who was also the victim, was filmed while sleeping by the man. The woman repeatedly tried to put a plastic spoon in his bottom while being encouraged by the man. The man moved throughout to try to get a better angle for the video. The victim at one stage came to and asked what was happening, with the duo suggesting he use the spoon to eat ice cream. The victim only knew what happened after being sent the video from the man’s Facebook Messenger account. Lawyers for the man and woman asked Justice Jillian Mallon to suppress their names, despite them not having name suppression throughout the district court process.