The Herald reported:
A tourist trying to have “a nice holiday in Nelson” was pulled off her bike, kicked and beaten by a naked man running through a campground.
The impact split her helmet and left her with lingering anxieties from the trauma of what started as a nice summer day by the beach.
The aggressor was Ricky James Mullen, a man described as having a nihilistic outlook, and now so used to prison, he functioned better inside it than out.
So why was he let out?
Ten years ago it was reported:
A Timaru man whose children saw him try to kill their mother’s new partner has been jailed for more than seven years.
Ricky James Mullen, 30, was sentenced in the High Court in Timaru today by Justice Graeme Pankhurst on charges of attempted murder, male assaults female and breaching a protection order.
He was jailed for seven years and four months.
This would have got him a strike as it occurred in 2013. Sadly Labour and Greens abolished the three strikes law, so his latest offending means he will get out in a few years, and offend again.
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