Kidnapping

Question 1

Kidnapping

Section and Penalty

Answer 1

Section 209 (a) or (b) or (c) Crimes Act 1961
14 years imprisonment

Question 2

Ingredients

Answer 2

• Unlawfully
• Takes away OR detains
• A person
• Without his or her consent OR with his or her consent obtained by fraud or duress
• With intent to:
  (a) hold him or her for ransom or service OR
  (b) cause him or her to be imprisoned or confined OR
  (c) cause him or her to be sent or taken out of NZ

Question 3

Define confined

Answer 3

Restricting their movements to within a geographical area

Question 4

Define imprisoned

Answer 4

To be held as if in prison

Question 5

Define ‘sent or taken out of NZ’

Answer 5

Sent out of NZ - To be sent out of NZ shores

Taken out of NZ - Taken suggest the victim is in the company or custody of a person accompanying them out of NZ.

Question 6

Define Ransom

Answer 6

Ransom is a sum of money demanded or paid for the release of a person being held captive

Question 7

Define Service

Answer 7

Relates to situations where the offenders intent is to keep the victim as a servant or slave.

Question 8

R V M

Answer 8

The crown must prove that the accused intended to take away or detain the complainant and that he or she knew that the complainant was not consenting