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# Misappropriation of Funds vs. Victim Race Card
- URL: https://goodoil.news/misappropriation-of-funds-vs-victim-race-card/
- Published: 2020-09-17T22:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-09-16T23:03:50.000Z
- Author: Guest Post
- Tags: Crime, NZ, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:00

I could not believe my eyes when I read the article in the *NZ Herald.* It led me to the conclusion that in future judgements, a case may be made for **“cultural shame”** as a way for a sentence to be reduced, possibly by quite a lot if the **“mana”** was broken enough.

> Stephen Henare and Margaret Dixon virtually bled the Parengarenga 3G (P3G) Trust dry to pay for gambling and luxuries, such as a corporate box at rugby league games.

> \[…\] the Court of Appeal said in an appropriate future case the courts may be able to “explore the possibility of treating **whakama** as a unique mitigating factor when sentencing a Maori defendant.”

> So, Henare took the case to New Zealand’s highest court with an application for a second challenge to his sentence. His sole intended ground of appeal was the effect of whakama, a form of cultural shame for Maori, should have been recognised as a personal mitigating factor in his sentencing.

> \[…\] “Our mana has been stripped, our tikanga value is gone … We as a whanau, we are broken,”

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