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Ngaire Maree Sadlier was sentenced to 18 months of intensive supervision in Christchurch District Court on Friday. (File photo)
A woman went to a Christchurch home pretending to be a police officer, but her plan was derailed when the man who opened the door was an off-duty police officer.
Ngaire Maree Sadlier, 41, was sentenced to 18 months of intensive supervision in Christchurch District Court on Friday. The charges against him included aggravated assault, impersonating a police officer and intentional trespassing.
The charges relate to an incident in July 2017 when Sadlier and two patched members of the Nomad gang went to a home in Charteris Bay, Banks Peninsula.
Sadlier knocked on a side entrance door. When a man opened the door, Sadlier asked him if it was Sam. The victim answered no and wanted to know who Sadlier was.
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She told him it was a Christchurch police officer. The man, a bailiff, informed him that he was also a policeman and asked for his identification. Sadlier asked the victim to show her her ID. When the bailiff showed Sadlier his ID, she tried to take it away.
He told her to get off his property, but she refused and asked if she was at number 57. When the sheriff warned her that he would arrest her if she didn’t leave, she said “go ahead then.”
The police officer arrested Sadlier and took her left arm. She punched him in the face and screamed for help. The officer released Sadlier and returned to the house to call the police.
He followed her as she walked away from her home asking for help. At that moment Norton Lindsay Adams, one of the men who had accompanied Sadlier to the house, ran to the bailiff and hit him twice in the face, breaking his glasses.
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Judge Jane Farish suggested that Ngaire Maree Sadlier write a letter to the police officer who had assaulted. (File photo)
The victim stumbled back and Sadlier and Adams grabbed him and shoved him toward their open door. Sadlier tried to scratch the victim’s face and then kicked him in the left knee, while Adams stomped on his right foot, barefoot.
Sadlier then yelled, “Grab the gun and shoot this p … r.”
The victim managed to close the door on her attackers and called 111 while Sadlier and Adams fled in a vehicle. They were arrested along with a third defendant shortly after. A pump action shotgun was found in the car they were driving.
The victim suffered a nosebleed, swollen lip, scratches on his arms and a sore and swollen knee and foot from the assault.
When Stuff He spoke to Sadlier shortly after the incident, said he intended to speak to a man about a “personal matter” but went to the wrong house.
“It was the wrong address. I wish I had never gone to that address because it was like three houses from where it should be,” he said.
During sentencing, Judge Jane Farish said that Sadlier’s high level of intelligence and the fact that she acts as a mentor to others were completely at odds with someone “with this chaotic lifestyle that was present.”
He said Sadlier needed to strengthen his ability to resist negative influences in his life and make positive decisions.
She ordered Sadlier to complete any course, program or counseling as directed by the probation officer.
Judge Farish also suggested that Sadlier write a letter to the police officer he had assaulted.
“Explain the real person you are and not a gang member that he probably thought you were at the time,” the judge said.
Last year, Adams was sentenced to two years and 7 months in prison after pleading guilty to assault, illegal possession of a firearm, reckless driving and failing to stop before police in connection with the incident.
He also admitted battery with intent to injure and unlawful possession of a firearm for another incident.
