The smallest wet bus ticket (colored green) being actively sought by court staff for the sentencing on Thursday.
And you can certainly count upon the defense lawyer and Golriz to exaggerate wildly about how badly affected she was by all kinds of trauma and drama - true or not.
Knowing her & the Greens' propensities for lies and falsehoods, no prizes for guessing how much spin and falsehoods are in the defense case.
https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2024/06/t...olriz_off.html
"Ghahraman grew up in Mashad, which is around 1,600 kms from the border with Iraq. That is like the distance between Auckland and Invercargill."
" ...... Cresswell said the “threats of rape and death were constant and ongoing and credible”, to the point where her security detail was similar to that of the Prime Minister.
It was not similar to the PM. In no way does that mean the threats were not vile and disturbing. The PM has 24/7 armed police officers. Ghahraman had a parliamentary security officer escort her on and off the campus."
Crown Solicitor Alysha McClintock said the offending had the hallmarks of pre-meditation.
“This was a spree of offending. It’s not a one-off event. It’s not a ‘moment of madness’-type case.”
There might be another explanation for the offending other than a mental health breakdown, McClintock said: “Simply that she wanted the items that she took.
”On its face, that explanation, given the [pre-meditated] nature of the conduct, appears the more likely of the two,” she said. …
The link between Ghahraman’s mental health and her criminal conduct was not as strong as the defence made it out to be, the prosecutor argued, noting a mental health assessor found there was “a possible link”.
”The possibility of that is no more than that – a possibility.”