Burglar raped by mate after botched house job

A man who sexually violated his male accomplice as punishment for botching a burglary has been jailed indefinitely on that charge and a raft of others.

Alister Reid, 47, has a long list of previous violent offending.

His latest conviction was for raping his mate in November 2013 after the pair had attempted to burgle a property in Hastings.

The rape was just one of several charges on which Reid was being sentenced by Justice Simon France in the High Court at Napier yesterday.

Crown prosecutor Jo Rielly said Reid’s denials, lack of remorse, expression of entitlement and lack of any desire to reform were ‘‘concerning’’.

Reid’s lawyer, Scott Jefferson, said his client still maintained his innocence.

He accepted there were no mitigating circumstances but said Reid was willing to undertake drug treatment.

Justice France said Reid had a history of re-offending after being released from prison.

He said Reid showed little sign of rehabilitating, and noted the escalation of his offending.

He sentenced him to preventive detention with a minimum nonparole term of six years.

In February Reid was sentenced to 51⁄2 years in prison for violent offending. He was a serving prisoner when on trial this year.

In July a jury found Reid guilty of sexual violation after a trial in the Napier District Court. The previous month another jury had found him guilty of a raft of charges including raping a teenage girl, administering and supplying methamphetamine, injuring with intent and wilfully ill-treating a child.

That offending occurred between 2003 and 2013. Some of it occurred while Reid dealt methamphetamine throughout the lower North Island.

The Crown successfully applied to have all matters moved to the High Court for consideration of preventive detention.

Reid raped his mate on the night of November 3, 2013. Reid made his victim accompany him on the burglary of a house in Hastings.

The burglary was unsuccessful when an occupant of the house became aware of them and bolted the door.

Reid blamed his mate, told him ‘‘there had to be payback’’, and later forced him on to a bed and raped him.

The victim told the jury he initially thought Reid was joking.

The victim did not report the rape until two years later, when a detective was speaking to him about an unrelated matter.

Reid denied being involved in the burglary, or raping the man.

In 2006 Reid was sentenced to eight years’ jail, including the minimum non-parole period of five years, for his part in the robbery of a firearms collector, who was tied up and threatened. Thirty firearms were stolen.

It was established that Reid’s motive was to put the weapons in the hands of criminals around the North Island.