The State v Okuk Seke (1998) N1826
Jurisdiction | Papua New Guinea |
Citation | (1998) N1826 |
Date | 24 July 1998 |
Court | National Court |
Year | 1998 |
Full Title: The State v Okuk Seke (1998) N1826
National Court: Sawong J
Judgment Delivered: 24 July 1998
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Sawong J: You have pleaded guilty to one count of escaping from lawful custody, at the Bundaira jail on 8 January 1995. At the time of your escape you were a prisoner serving a term of 4 years imprisonment for armed robbery. At that time you and 5 others were escorted by Warder to the area where the livestock were, and you were left out at the place where the sheep were to look after these animals. While you were there you escaped, and you were at large until you were recaptured.
There is not much information regarding your own personal background put before me and so I do not make much comment on that. However, I note in your favour that you pleaded guilty before me and you also expressed remorseness for what you did.
When I gave you an opportunity to talk to me, you told me that you had been wrongly sent to jail initially because you claim you were innocent. In that regard, I say that you could have lodged an appeal to Supreme Court, if you felt that the decision and sentence were wrong.
Secondly your escape was that the Corrective Institute did not supply you with proper uniform and that the only civilian clothing you had were worn out and torn.
Third reason, which is related to the second reason, was that as you had no brother and sister, no one could provide any help to you when your father died, he being the only one able to help you and when he died there was no–one to help you.
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Edmund Gima v The State; SCA No 32 of 2002; Siune Arnold v The State (2003) SC730
...v Inema Yawok (1998) N1766, The State v Thomas Waim [1988] PNGLR 360, The State v Richard Olso Kumis (1997) N1517, The State v Okuk Seke (1998) N1826, The State v Irox Winston [2003] PNGLR 331, The State v Kerowa Kana (2003) N2376, The State v Solomon Philip (Unreported and unnumbered judgm......
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The State v Irox Winston (2003) N2347
...J) dated 4 April 1996), The State v Thomas Waim [1988] PNGLR 360, The State v Richard Olso Kumis (1997) N1517, The State v Okuk Seke (1998) N1826, Public Prosecutor v Don Hale (1998) SC564, The State v James Gurave Guba (2000) N2020, Acting Public Prosecutor v Konis Haha [1981] PNGLR 205 an......