Five Years’ Gaol For Rape

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31304, 25 February 1967, Page 3

Five Years’ Gaol For Rape

(New Zealand Press Association)

AUCKLAND, February 23.

A 31-year-old man who was found guilty of what Mr Justice Richmond called “a horrible rape with no redeeming features” was sentenced today to five years’ imprisonment.

Derek Malcolm Green, a sheet metal worker, was found guilty on February 16 of raping a 19-year-old typist.

The offence was alleged to have been committed in a car parked in an Auckland cemetery on September 10, 1966. Imposing sentence, his Honour said Green still maintained his innocence, but he had to deal with the matter on the basis of the jury’s verdict “which, as I indicated at the time of the trial, I am fully in agreement with.” This was not a case where toe girl’s behaviour had led Green to the point where he had lost control of himself. It was clear, his Honour said, that Green intended having intercourse with the girl to impress his two companions, one of whom, at least, had been rejected by the girl. The jury had also apparently accepted the evidence that Green had punished the girl with blows to her face and body. His Honour said that he accepted the girl’s evidence that Green had threatened to make her available to the other two men if she did not submit

“Although this was certainly not a gang rape, it was a horrible rape with no redeeming features,” he said.