A face-tattooed Mongrel Mob bikie kingpin has been jailed for 10 years for kidnapping and raping a teenage girl who owed him drug money, a court has heard. 

Alexander ‘Sandy’ Tamati was sentenced by Judge Tony Adeane in Napier District Court on Friday, Stuff.co.nz reported. 

The 60-year-old, who had previous convictions of rape and drug trafficking, has a criminal history spanning more than 40 years.

Alexander 'Sandy' Tamati (pictured) was sentenced by Judge Tony Adeane in Napier District Court on Friday

Alexander ‘Sandy’ Tamati (pictured) was sentenced by Judge Tony Adeane in Napier District Court on Friday

Tamati’s ties with gang culture saw his life riddled with prior convictions as Crown Prosecutor Steve Manning noted during the trial.

His serious offence subjected the girl to horrific abuse, ultimately degrading and dehumanising her, the court heard. 

Tamati pleaded guilty to a charge of supplying methamphetamine to the woman at the start of his trial last year, but defended four charges of unlawful sexual connection, two of kidnap, aggravated assault, assault on a female, assault with a blunt instrument and threatening to kill or do grievous bodily harm.

Manning said it was only after the trial that Tamati accepted his culpability, citing to a reporter writer: ‘Now, well, I did it. I actually don’t know why I did it’.

Judge Adeane called Tamati, ‘a Mongrel Mob kingpin’, was responsible for ‘gangsterism’ of the worst kind.

His serious offending subjected the girl to horrific abuse, the court heard

His serious offending subjected the girl to horrific abuse, the court heard

His serious offending subjected the girl to horrific abuse, the court heard

A jury took only one and half hours to find Tamati guilty on all offences against him.

Tamati, who was also known as ‘Waldo’ and ‘Cap’, short for captain, was a senior member of the Mongrel Mob and a former president of the gang’s New Zealand chapter. 

The court was told that his offending involved a 19-year-old who was unable to repay $800 worth of drugs and holding her captive, during which he sexually assaulted her, after sending two members of the gang to collect her. 

Those two men were charged with a number of charges in relation to the offending which occurred in late 2016. 

They each pleaded guilty to two charges of kidnap and were jailed for two years and six months and two years and three months respectively.

 

 



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