Kidnapping Flashcards

1
Q

Kidnapping

Section and Penalty

A

Section 209 (a) or (b) or (c) Crimes Act 1961

14 years imprisonment

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Kidnapping Ingredients

A

1) Unlawfully
2) Takes away or Detains
3) A Person

4) Without his or her consent
OR
With his or her consent obtained by fraud or duress

5) With Intent to:
a) To hold him or her for ransom or to service
OR
b) To cause him or her to be imprisoned or confined
OR
c) To cause him or her to be sent or taken out of NZ.

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Unlawfully

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Without lawful justification, authority or excuse

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R v Crossan

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Taking away and detaining are “separate and distinct offences. The first consists of taking [the victim] away; the second of detaining her. The first offence was complete when the prisoner took the woman away against her will. Then, having taken her away, he detained her against her will, and his conduct in detaining her constituted a new and different offence”.

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5
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R v Wellard

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The essence of the offence of kidnapping is the “deprivation of liberty coupled with a carrying away from the place where the victim wants to be”.

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Detaining

R v Pryce

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Detaining is an active concept meaning to keep in confinement or custody. This is to be contrasted to the passive concept of harbouring or mere failure to hand over.

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Person

A

Gender neutral proven by judicial notice or circumstantial evidence.

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Consent

And

R v Cox

A

Consent is a persons conscious and voluntary agreement to something desired or proposed by another.

R v Cox

Consent must be full, voluntary, free and informed. Freely and voluntarily given by a person to form a rational judgement.

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To Obtain Consent by FRAUD

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Consent obtained by the misrepresentation of the facts or the offenders intentions.

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To obtain consent by DURESS

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Actual or implied threat of force to the victim or another person. Can include other forms of pressure or coercion.

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Child under 16

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Section 209A Crimes Act 1961

For the purposes of S208 and S209, a person under the age of 16 years cannot consent to being taken away or detained.

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Intent

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In a criminal law context there are two specific types of an intention in an offence. Firstly there must be an intention to commit the act and secondly an intention to get a specific result.

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13
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R v Mohi

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The offence is committed at the time of taking away, so long as there is, at that moment, the necessary intent. It has never been regarded as necessary … that the Crown should show the intent was carried out.

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R v Waaka

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Intent may be formed at any time during the taking away. If a taking away commences without the intent to have intercourse, but that intent is formed during the taking away, then that is sufficient for the purposes of the section.

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b) To cause him or her to be IMPRISONED or CONFINED

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Confined:
Restricting their movements to within a geographical area.

Imprisoned:
To be held as if in prison.

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c) To cause him or her to be SENT or TAKEN OUT of NZ

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Sent out of New Zealand:
Sent - normal meaning, to be sent out of NZ shores.

Taken out of New Zealand:
Taken suggests victim in company or custody of a person accompanying them out of New Zealand.

17
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With Intent to:

a) Hold him or her for RANSOM or to SERVICE

A

Ransom:
A sum of money demanded or paid, for the release of a person being held capture.

Service:
Hold as a servant or slave.

18
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R v M

A

The crown must prove that the accused intended to take away or detain the complainant and that he or she knew that the complainant was not consenting.