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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-852/
- Published: 2023-10-18T17:30:51.000Z
- Updated: 2023-10-18T04:35:15.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Crime, NZ, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:07

> Former NZ Idol winner Matthew Saunoa has been jailed for over six years for [a deliberate hit-and-run](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300732859/police-officer-struck-by-vehicle-in-auckland-one-in-custody?ref=goodoil.news) that nearly killed a police officer who was trying to stop him.  
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> The 38-year-old previously pleaded guilty to aggravated grievous bodily harm, unlawfully taking a motor vehicle, burglary and a string of motor vehicle offences relating to the chase in November 2021.  
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> Sitting in the dock at the Manukau District Court on Wednesday, the former reality TV star was handed a sentence of six years and seven months in prison by Judge Ngaroma Tahana.  
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> Ngaroma said that while she accepted Saunoa was remorseful, he had led police on a “spree of very dangerous driving” and deliberately hit a police officer.  
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> “You made no effort to stop and attend to \[the officer\],” she said.  
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> Earlier, Saunoa had listened to the officer speak of the physical and emotional pain the former TV star had caused him.  
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> Stuff

[Read more here](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/133142808/former-nz-idol-winner-matthew-saunoa-jailed-for-nearly-killing-police-officer-in-hit-and-run?ref=goodoil.news). Discuss it on *The BFD.*

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