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Sentencing for former Green MP Golriz Ghahraman delayed

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Former Green MP Golriz Ghahraman’s sentencing for shoplifting has been postponed until Thursday afternoon.

The 43-year-old had previously admitted to four charges of shoplifting, involving thousands of dollars’ worth of clothing from various stores.

In the Auckland District Court Judge Jelas allowed Ghahraman to sit in the public gallery, indicating she would not face a custodial sentence.

However, Crown prosecutor Alysha McClintock contested the claim that Ghahraman’s mental health issues were directly responsible for her actions. Despite a mental health report suggesting a possible link between her undiagnosed PTSD and the offenses, McClintock argued that this connection was tenuous and should not significantly mitigate her culpability, which she rated as medium to high.

Ghahraman’s lawyer, Annabel Cresswell, argued for a discharge without conviction, emphasising Ghahraman’s early acceptance of responsibility, ‘demonstrated remorse’, and ‘low risk of reoffending.’

The former MP, who resigned earlier in the year when the charges surfaced, had attributed her actions to work-related stress and ‘unrecognised trauma.’

She claimed that her behaviour was out of character and linked to an ‘extreme stress response,’ as supported by her mental health professional.

The charges include thefts ranging from $389 to over $5,000 in value from various high-end stores. The court will consider these factors when sentencing is resumed on Thursday.

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  1. I’m a Combat Veteran with fully-diagnosed PTSD, and I NEVER used this as an excuse for anything, let alone stealing and shoplifting…
    I’ve never taken anything but the life of the enemy that was trying to kill me…!
    In Golriz’s native country of Iran, the punishments would be far worse and much more severe under Sharia and Islamic Law.
    This is a ‘wait and see’ situation, but IF she has PTSD, then a sentence of home detention would be appropriate with a psychologist visiting every other day, with EMDR and Bio-Feedback, as prison can serve as a violent conduit and a trigger point for violence for those with PTSD, ie shanking, attacking without warning, etc.,.
    She also has a neurological disease which can and does cause fractured reasoning of thought patterns. She was interviewed about a couple of years ago on TVNZ…
    Maybe the latter is why she joined the Green (Red Communist) Party.

    • EXACTLY!!! Thanks for pointing this out, with regards to the J3wdicial System in the Western World overall!
      In the U.S. IF you complete Martial Arts training to reach Black Belt status, you then have to register your skills with the Police, as your hands are then considered to be ‘Deadly Weapons’.
      Then, if you so much as tap a person on the shoulder, you will be charged with ‘Assault with a Deadly Weapon’!
      This is why many who are potentially Black Belt qualified never take the final sparring test, lest they be registered in their individual States.
      One Martial Arts School here in NZ has their students fill out forms that gets passed to the NZ Police, stating that they are engaged in Martial Arts training. That info gets entered into the database, and gives the cops a ‘heads-up’ that the person being stopped, questioned or arrested has the skills to injure or kill…which then results in excessive Police procedures against the…’Citizen’…!

  2. Its people like GOLRIZ GHAHRAMAN who are causing businesses to close and for people to lose their jobs
    Businesses and people who would otherwise be paying taxes
    A lot of these businesses never recovered from the plandemic and are hangover from the Ardern administration
    Until then the costs are passed on and the consumer foots the bill
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0KNORG5j-A

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