The State v Ipu Samuel Yomb
| Jurisdiction | Papua New Guinea |
| Citation | [1992] PNGLR 261 |
| Date | 12 February 1992 |
| Court | National Court |
| Year | 1992 |
National Court: Doherty J
Judgment Delivered: 12 February 1992
1 Criminal law—arson—sentence—matters to be considered—burning of building—putting lives at risk more serious
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Doherty J: The defendant was indicted and pleaded guilty to one count of arson contrary to s436 of the Criminal Code.
The incidence of this arson was a particularly a bad one as Counsel for the defence as conceded.
The fact show that the householder his wife and family were asleep in their home on 1 December 1990. It is not clear how many children were with their parents, the evidence refers to "children" making it clear there was more than one child, the list of personal effects lost (accepted as part of the evidence) shows clothes belonging the other people (including one baby) leading to an inference that there were between two and five children in the house at the time in question.
At about 3.30am in the morning one of the daughters woke the parents because she felt the heat coming from the roof. As soon as they woke up they could see that the roof of the house was burning.
They tried to leave only to find that the door was locked on the outside barring their way out. This aspect of the case is, to my mind, one of the worst aspects of this offence. Both eyewitnesses, Steven Koborogi and his wife Ester say that they tried to open the door but it was locked from the outside...
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