Taumarunui man Ian Crutchley has avoided jail after being found guilty of attempting to murder his elderly mother in a resthome.
Crutchley was today sentenced by the High Court in Hamilton to six months community detention and 150 hours of community work. Community Detention is effectively an electronic curfew.
Offenders wear an ankle bracelet which transmits information on their whereabouts back to authorities.
Offenders serving the sentence are monitored in the same way as those serving Home Detention, but for a specific period of time each week.
Crutchley was found guilty, on May 21, of the attempted murder of his mother Elsie Crutchley, who was dying of cancer. He gave the 77-year-old an overdose of morphine and other drugs on February 5 while she was being treated for the final stages of stomach cancer at the rest home.
Crutchley said “thank-you sir, thank-you very much,” to the High Court judge before leaving the court.
Crutchley’s case was at the heart of the euthanasia debate and his family had petitioned for a lenient sentence.
- Waikato Times
IAIN McGREGOR/Waikato Times
Source: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/525823/Son-avoids-jail-for-attempted-murder-at-resthome
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