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\f0\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid4811066\charrsid4811066 I also agree that you have committed a heinous crime against a vulnerable defenseless woman who was your living partner and pregnant.
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}{\f0\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid4811066\charrsid4811066 I should place it on record that you have co-operated from the inception of the investigation and trial.}{\f0\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid4811066  }{
\f0\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid4811066\charrsid4811066 You were not wasting the precious time of the Court and the Counsels.
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\f41\fs22\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\f0\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid4811066\charrsid4811066 You were remorseful to the extend that you attempted to commit suicide twice.
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\f41\fs22\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\f0\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid4811066\charrsid4811066 You have a dependant child and your mother.}{\f0\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid4811066  }{
\f0\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid4811066\charrsid4811066 You claim this had happened due to anger.
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\f41\fs22\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\f0\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid4811066\charrsid4811066 State submits that you have 34 previous convictions all of them are before March 1998.}{
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\f0\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid4811066\charrsid4811066 t intent to give an allowance as 1st offender.
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\f41\fs22\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\f0\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid4811066\charrsid4811066 Considering the aggrava
ting factors and mitigating circumstances I sentence you to life imprisonment for murder of Esita Kele and I fix 16 years as non parole term.}{\f0\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid4811066  }{
\f0\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid4811066\charrsid4811066 The relevant authorities may consider your release thereafter if necessary.
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\par Judge
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\par }{\b\f0\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid4811066\charrsid4811066 At Suva 
\par 
\par Solicitors
\par }{\f0\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid4811066\charrsid4811066 Office of the Director of Public Prosecution for State
\par Office of the Legal Aid Commission for Accused
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