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flag The Walk Without Fear Trust urges New Zealand to mandate 8-year non-parole terms for coward punches, citing inconsistent sentencing and Australia’s stricter laws as models.

flag The Walk Without Fear Charitable Trust, founded after Fau Vake’s 2021 death from a coward punch, supports New Zealand’s proposed Crimes Amendment Bill to criminalize the act and create a new manslaughter charge. flag While welcoming the bill’s symbolic progress, the Trust urges Parliament to add mandatory minimum non-parole periods, warning that without them, sentencing remains inconsistent and lenient. flag It cites Australia’s New South Wales and Victoria, where such laws have led to average sentences exceeding nine years, as models for reform. flag The Trust argues that current New Zealand sentencing laws limit judicial discretion, resulting in sentences for violent assaults that are shorter than those for fraud, undermining public trust. flag It calls for mandatory eight-year non-parole periods, restrictions on excessive plea discounts, and inclusion in the three strikes law to ensure justice reflects the gravity of such crimes.

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