R v Fatu - [2026] NZHC 2040

Sentencing of Mr Dwight Fatu for serious methamphetamine charges and participating in an organised criminal group. Mr Fatu pleaded guilty to the offending four years after the charges were made and subsequent to a Court of Appeal decision holding that evidence taken from the AN0M devices used to facilitate the offending was admissible.

Sentencing comprised of an 11-year starting point, one year uplift for other offending, one year uplift for previous convictions, 15 percent discount for background, and 15 percent discount for guilty plea. No reductions granted for delay as not undue or behaviour of the FBI. This produced an end sentence of nine years and five months' imprisonment.