Rapist dad jailed for 6 1⁄2 years

The day after Daniel Moore raped a woman in a public toilet, he took his unwitting family there.

The 34-year-old Milton man was jailed for six-and-a-half years after subjecting a stranger to a half-hour sex attack at the Waihola Domain.

He was sentenced in the Dunedin District Court on Monday.

Moore claimed he had been sitting in the car park — 40km southwest of Dunedin — drinking and smoking because his marriage was in tatters, as he had been the victim of psychological abuse at home.

His wife, Nicola Allen, told the Otago Daily Times that explanation was a sham. She described Moore as a “very manipulative man” who was in control of what happened at home.

Moore returned home as usual that Friday evening, April 20.

The family ate fish and chips and just hours after the rape he had sex with his wife. “To know he came home and had relations with me — it just makes me sick,” Allen said.

The next day, on the way home after the family attended a Dunedin event, Moore pulled over in Waihola.

“He stopped in there and revisited the toilets with me and the kids in the car,” Allen said. “Who does that?”

But during the weekend police had scoured CCTV footage of traffic on State Highway 1, among which was the defendant’s work van.

Allen discovered he had been arrested when police arrived at their home to execute a search warrant.

Moore initially told police the cubicle sex had been consensual but he eventually pleaded guilty to rape.

He will be eligible for parole in June 2020.