Bailey Messervy, 20, has been sentenced to 17 years and six months in prison, with a minimum non-parole period of seven years, for the 2022 murder of 62-year-old Nigel Wilson at Bexley Reserve in Christchurch.
Despite the mandatory life sentence outlined in the Sentencing Act for murder, Justice Rachel Dunningham deemed a life term “manifestly unjust,” citing Messervy’s youth, impulsivity, traumatic background, and rehabilitative potential.
The jury had rejected the defense’s claim that Messervy lacked intent to kill, but the court’s decision acknowledged factors mitigating the severity of his punishment.
Wilson and Messervy became involved in an argument where Wilson called out Messervy for driving his vehicle at speed through the reserve.
The court heard Wilson shut the gates at the entrance and confronted Messervy, and the defendant stabbed him eight times, with four blows to his abdomen.
The Crown said Messervy’s associate stole Wilson’s phone following the assault, leaving him unable to call for help.
Wilson’s dog returned home without him, which raised the alarm.
Woke Joke Rachel Dunningham personifies all that’s wrong with our “justice” system, by siding with the murderer.
How our justice system value life.see what our lives are worth to the SYSTEM
It’s a disgrace. Rob a bank with a gun. Betcha a longer sentence without any one being hurt
You have it in one or worse still, defraud IRD, the ultimate sin. Gotta pay for those worthless political parasites.
Lock this feral POS up permanently. Who raises a feral like that? I have a 20 year old and he would never behave like this.
Well isn’t that something
In NZ You get more for watching a fake CGI Mosque video in which nobody is killed
Than You do for viciously murdering somebody?
This cuntry is seriously f***** up
You nailed it.
And it is run by f***** up corrupted politicians with a messiah complex and woke judges like that scum bucket, traitors to the people of New Zealand.
But wait my friend, these creatures are too self-involved and stupid to see that history has never been kind to traitors.
Okay bashing someone is bad but not unforgivable. The minute you produce a knife, as far as I’m concerned you are a scumbag of the lowest kind. So seven years for this. Probably would have gotten more if he had ripped off IRD.