Post by hps on Sept 18, 2009 13:34:01 GMT 12
www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/2878792/Human-crime-wave-Patricia-Toia-back-in-New-Zealand
"Human crime wave" Patricia Toia has finally been deported from Australia to New Zealand - on a private jet.
Patricia Carol Toia, 31, moved to Sydney when she was just one-year-old. She has been jailed more then 30 times there for offences including robbery, assaults, heroin trafficking and driving while disqualified. One described by her own lawyer as a "human crime wave", she is banned from driving in Australia until 2060.
Held in in Australia's Villawood Detention Centre since 2004, she was deported from there last Thursday after she exhausted her final appeal.
Australian media reported she was flown here on a charter jet accompanied by three Australian police and two immigration department officers at a cost to Australian taxpayers of between AU$30,000 and $40,000.
It was reported commercial airlines refused to have her onboard.
In 2007 the Administrative Appeals Tribunal upheld a 2004 decision to return Toia to New Zealand.
''The fact that the applicant . . . has spent nearly all of her life in Australia is a relevant factor. But she is a threat to the Australian community, and Australia deserves protection against her, given that the risk of recidivism is, as must be obvious, very substantial indeed,'' it said.
Last year, she told The Dominion Post she intended to marry her boyfriend Hamish McClelland - who has driving convictions and is on a methadone programme - so he would be able to join her here if she was deported.
Mr McClelland told media he and Toia had been on a methadone programme together ''and she hasn't been in trouble for a while. It [sending her to New Zealand] would disrupt the good progress that she's made''.
Toia credited Mr McClelland with giving her the chance of a settled life.
''I'd like to have a good job and ... have kids and all the ordinary things I should have been doing.''
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They went to great measures to get rid of her...just check you don't have new neighbours this weekend!
"Human crime wave" Patricia Toia has finally been deported from Australia to New Zealand - on a private jet.
Patricia Carol Toia, 31, moved to Sydney when she was just one-year-old. She has been jailed more then 30 times there for offences including robbery, assaults, heroin trafficking and driving while disqualified. One described by her own lawyer as a "human crime wave", she is banned from driving in Australia until 2060.
Held in in Australia's Villawood Detention Centre since 2004, she was deported from there last Thursday after she exhausted her final appeal.
Australian media reported she was flown here on a charter jet accompanied by three Australian police and two immigration department officers at a cost to Australian taxpayers of between AU$30,000 and $40,000.
It was reported commercial airlines refused to have her onboard.
In 2007 the Administrative Appeals Tribunal upheld a 2004 decision to return Toia to New Zealand.
''The fact that the applicant . . . has spent nearly all of her life in Australia is a relevant factor. But she is a threat to the Australian community, and Australia deserves protection against her, given that the risk of recidivism is, as must be obvious, very substantial indeed,'' it said.
Last year, she told The Dominion Post she intended to marry her boyfriend Hamish McClelland - who has driving convictions and is on a methadone programme - so he would be able to join her here if she was deported.
Mr McClelland told media he and Toia had been on a methadone programme together ''and she hasn't been in trouble for a while. It [sending her to New Zealand] would disrupt the good progress that she's made''.
Toia credited Mr McClelland with giving her the chance of a settled life.
''I'd like to have a good job and ... have kids and all the ordinary things I should have been doing.''
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They went to great measures to get rid of her...just check you don't have new neighbours this weekend!
