The Supreme Court has sentenced Kefu Kalavi to six years in prison for attempted rape.
He has also been sentenced to two years in prison for housebreaking and six months for assault.
Kalavi, 21, is already serving a 14 year sentence for manslaughter in the death of a shopkeeper.
The bulk of his new sentence will be served concurrent with his current sentence.
However, two years of the sentence for attempted rape will be served in addition to his current sentence.
This means he will now serve a total sentence of 16 years.
Kalavi was found guilty on July 25 and appeared before Lord Chief Justice Paulsen for sentencing this week.
About 2am on May 26, 2014, the victim, a young mother alone with a baby son, heard someone outside her house. She went to see who it was and saw Kalavi trying to enter the house by ripping off its tin cladding. Kalavi was known to the woman.
She called the police on her cell phone and asked for help. Kalavi entered the house, threw her cellphone away, strangled her and asked for sex. He then dragged her by the hair and throat outside the house to a nearby mango tree. He told the woman he was going to have sex with her and kill her before the police arrived.
At that point the policer arrived. When the woman tried to call out, Kalavi punched her around the face and then ran off towards the neighbours’ pig sty. Kalavi was arrested the next day when he went back to the neighbouring property to retrieve his pants.
Lord Chief Justice Paulsen said Kalavi had a history of serious offending which appeared to be escalating. He was convicted on two counts of housebreaking in 2010, but the sentences were totally suspended on the condition that he did not commit any further offences.
In 2011 he was convicted of a series of housebreakings and thefts and sentenced to five years imprisonment with the final two years suspended for three years.
In July 2014 he appeared before Mr Justice Cato who sentenced him to four years and nine months imprisonment for armed robbery. He was also sentenced to two years imprisonment for housebreaking and two years for causing bodily harm.
Then, on November 25, 2015, Kalavi was sentenced to 12 years in jail after being found guilty of manslaughter when he killed a Chinese shopkeeper after hitting him on the head while robbing his store in February 2014.
In sentencing Kalavi, Lord Chief Justice Paulsen said little could be said in favour of the prisoner.
“He is a recidivist offender and I do not believe he has shown any genuine remorse or that he feels any remorse for what he did,” the judge said.
The main points
- The Supreme Court has sentenced Kefu Kalavi to six years in prison for attempted rape.
- Kalavi, 21, is already serving a 14 year sentence for manslaughter in the death of a shopkeeper.
- The bulk of his new sentence will be served concurrent with his current sentence.
- However, two years of the sentence for attempted rape will be served in addition to his current sentence, so he will now serve a total sentence of 16 years.
