A man who cut off his home detention tracker bracelet so he could take part in the aggravated robbery of a Blenheim dairy late last year will now join his co-offenders in prison.
Johnny Harvey Wiremu Baker, 18, of Blenheim, was one month into the home detention sentence for a serious assault when on December 28 he cut his electronic tracking bracelet off his ankle and drove Quade Ross Honey, 21, and Rex Randle Chapman, 18, to the Tip Top Store & Takeaways in Scott St.
Chapman and Honey burst in with a knife, scaring the shop worker, and stole $1600 of tobacco and sweets.
Baker then drove the pair and their loot from the scene.
He was charged with being an accessory to the aggravated robbery and sentenced by Judge David McKegg to 14 months in prison yesterday in the Blenheim District Court.
Earlier this year Honey was sentenced to three years imprisonment and Chapman for two years and eight months.
Judge McKegg sentenced Baker to eight months in prison for his role in the robbery and one month, to be served concurrently, for charges of intentional damage, possession of cannabis, allowing a vehicle to be used in a crime and breaching community detention.
Baker was also re-sentenced to six months in prison for the assault with intent to injure, which occurred last year and for which he originally received six months of community detention, which he breached to go to the robbery.
Baker was ordered to undergo drug and alcohol treatment on his release from prison.
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