Man who damaged multiple cars in Timaru fails to appeal jail term
Natasha Martin/Stuff Matt Dylan Sinclair’s appeal against a sentence of three years, four months' imprisonment on 21 charges has been dismissed by the High Court. A Christchurch man convicted for throwing Z-shaped nails onto the road during a police pursuit through Timaru, and a raft of other charges including burglary, has failed to appeal his jail term. Matt Dylan Sinclair argued his sentence of three years, four months’ imprisonment on 21 charges was “manifestly excessive” because Judge Alistair Garland’s uplift for previous convictions was too high, and the judge “wrongly dec...