Mike Angove: Walk Without Fear Board Member on the new sentencing around coward punches
The Mike Hosking Breakfast · Newstalk ZB
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Show Notes
A charitable trust is commending tougher sentences for people throwing coward punches.
The Government's new specific offence for striking a distracted victim could carry a sentence of life imprisonment if fatal.
Walk Without Fear has been pushing for changes after MMA fighter Liufau Vake was killed by a single coward punch in 2021.
Board Member Mike Angove told Mike Hosking the charges need to be in conjunction with education that starts at a school level.
He says that no one argues against the lethality of attacking someone with a knife or a gun, but people are unaware that hitting someone who’s unaware can result in permanent damage or a lethal outcome.
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