"A poacher who abused the customary fishing permit system in order to run a large commercial-scale black market crayfish ring, appeared to be in a state of shock as a judge sent him off to jail for more than two years.

John Nohotima, a 61-year-old sickness beneficiary, did not show his face to the public gallery of the Wairoa District Court on Wednesday until Judge Warren Cathcart told him his sentence, at which point he turned to a woman who’d accompanied him to court and gaped, wide-eyed, in apparent incredulity."

This sums up the sense of entitlement and impunity these dickheads are operating with.