Peter Fulcher - Is he a Harmless Man?
If you're my age, or younger, you may wonder who Peter Fulcher is. Even if you say he was associated with Terry Clark it doesn't really hold any meaning. But if you mention "Mr Asia" a lighhtbulb goes off - the gang who imported Heroin into Australia and New Zealand, ruining many lives. Nearly thirty years on, "Mr Asia" is still one of the most notorious crimes in New Zealand.
Peter Fulcher is one of the players in the "Mr Asia" drama - a dealer in misery selling heroin to addicts in Auckland. Sentenced to ten years in prison. And recently he was convicted of obtaining a passport by fraudulent means after an audit turned up his false application from 1998. He admited he stole a dead child's identity to obtain a passport while facing fresh drugs charges. A recent high profile case is of two Israeli nationals who tried to obtain New Zealand Passports fraudulently ended with both spending several months in prison.
But lawyer Peter Williams QC thinks it is right that Fulcher is not back in prison. "It would be most unjust if the taxpayer had to fork out $60,000 a year to keep a man like that in prison."
For a convicted drug dealer who was involved with the Mr Asia gang that bribed many police officers, imported so much heroin into Australia, New Zealand and Britain and murdered several people when they started talking? After being released from prison he then goes about getting himself charged with more drug offences and obtains a fake passport.
Sounds to me like he should never have been let out of prison in the first place.
Peter Fulcher is one of the players in the "Mr Asia" drama - a dealer in misery selling heroin to addicts in Auckland. Sentenced to ten years in prison. And recently he was convicted of obtaining a passport by fraudulent means after an audit turned up his false application from 1998. He admited he stole a dead child's identity to obtain a passport while facing fresh drugs charges. A recent high profile case is of two Israeli nationals who tried to obtain New Zealand Passports fraudulently ended with both spending several months in prison.
But lawyer Peter Williams QC thinks it is right that Fulcher is not back in prison. "It would be most unjust if the taxpayer had to fork out $60,000 a year to keep a man like that in prison."
For a convicted drug dealer who was involved with the Mr Asia gang that bribed many police officers, imported so much heroin into Australia, New Zealand and Britain and murdered several people when they started talking? After being released from prison he then goes about getting himself charged with more drug offences and obtains a fake passport.
Sounds to me like he should never have been let out of prison in the first place.
posted by Michael at
8:35 PM
2 Comments:
Peter Fulcher to me represents what we as NewZealanders have lost as people and need to regain. What would that be you wonder?
When i first read of the detailed history of the Mr Asia Gang it read to me as a well organised well respected group of individuals that had an eye for business and plain as black and white with no exceptions.
Peter Fulcher and his role in this group from what the records state is like any other business man with an eye for making money and an eye for taking the weakest links out of the outa rhelms of the organisation.
Society dictates what is legally accepted these days but maybe if we took on some of the values that this organisation originally stood by there would be no room for questioning peoples loyalities and no room for distrust. So to answer the question is Peter Fulcher a harmless man?
We all have a natural instinct to protect our own and will do what we need to in order for that to be. Peter Fulcher is as harmless as he needs to be when not put into a position of protection his own just as we would. I have all the respect for a person with such pure values.
By
Anonymous, at 12:49 PM
Peter Fulcher is a great man. Full respect given. Have faith in the prison system that rehabilitation works.
By
LawyerMan, at 9:23 AM
Post a Comment
<< Home