In November 2019 he was sentenced in the New Plymouth District Court, ordered to pay the victim's family $1000 in reparation, and disqualified from driving for four years. The Parole Board met with Bishell in February at Whanganui Prison, via audio visual link, where he is serving a sentence of two years and six months. It found Bishell had done nothing in prison to reduce his re-offending, other than attending sessions with a mental health counsellor, which at best was only indirectly related to that offending. “The key treatment which, in our view, he needs to undertake, he is not at present prepared to do,” the Board's decision said.