ABSTRACT
In July 2007, Jack Phillips was sentenced to three years in prison for the daylight street robbery of a man earlier in that year in Stratford, a small town in Taranaki, New Zealand. Phillips had called out to the victim and then crossed the road, following him up the street. He then grabbed the man from behind in a ‘sleeper hold’ and punched him repeatedly in the face. As a consequence the victim required medical attention for cuts and bruises to his face, mouth and ear. Phillips took the man’s wallet containing $80 from his back pocket, before running off.
