PRIVATE PROSECUTIONS
PRISONER VOTING RIGHTS
In December 2010 Parliament amended the Electoral Act 1993, extending to all prisoners a prohibition on voting that was formerly restricted to prisoners sentenced to three or more years’ imprisonment. In Taylor v Attorney-General, Taylor sought to have this extension overturned, although before Parliament even passed the bill, Attorney-General Chris Finlayson had declared that “the blanket disenfranchisement of prisoners appears to be inconsistent with Section 12 of the Bill of Rights Act and that it cannot be justified”
CIVIL & CRIMINAL CASE PREP
Arthur Taylor now lives a humble life in Dunedin. After spending over 38 years on the inside, he knows a thing or two about the system. Arthur is inundated with requests from people from all works of life on a daily basis. If you’re looking for help, advice or case preparation – Arthur maybe just the person you need to talk to. Please use the form on the contact page to get in touch today.
Tunnelling Out of Wellington’s Mt Crawford Prison:
How Arthur Taylor tried to tunnel out of Mount Crawford Prison August 15, 2021, • 10:59am Arthur Taylor relaxing at home in Dunedin.HAMISH MCNEILLY / STUFF In 1977 Arthur Taylor was a young man completing one of his first stints in prison. He went on to...
Judge: “Bully and a coward”
https://www.facebook.com/arthur.taylor.925/posts/pfbid02koQZjuuR9pZ9iH52fX3njyUEQCt6tmN88TQJxDUN4E7wTehRbkLUXfW9yydzyh6Ul?comment_id=679124357754077¬if_id=1705443055722427¬if_t=feed_comment&ref=notif Wednesday, 22 March 2023 A judge labelled a...
Opinion – Arthur Taylor – Who is he?
26/02/2016 Phil Vine Arthur Taylor (File) Arthur who? You must know. That old crim who keeps popping up in the news with the regularity of whale strandings. He used to sport a terrible toothbrush moustache and now, without lip or head hair he looks a bit like Bruce...
How I was framed
Firstly, I am extremely fortunate to be able to write this blog. If it was not for the determination of Alan Ritchie (Parole Board Panel Convenor) and Judge Emma Smith (District Court Judge) not to just take as gospel what they were told by the Police and...
How Arthur Taylor is taking on the government from prison – and winning
In 2016 notorious criminal Arthur Taylor successfully challenged the government’s blanket ban on prisoners voting in elections. In 2018 the Court of Appeal upheld the High Court’s ruling that the ban is inconsistent with the Bill of Rights, however Justice Minister...
Is This New Zealand’s Most Successful Criminal Appellate Lawyer?
He’s one of New Zealand’s more successful appellate lawyers. He’s also one of the longest serving prisoners and Arthur William Taylor has scored another appellate success with his Supreme Court appeal regarding the voting rights of prisoners. Taylor has long been...
Corrections returns Gangland book
Well, well look what arrived in a courier pack today from Otago Corrections Facility.. No explanatory letter.. The “missing” book 🤔 📙
Arthur on Wikipedia.
Arthur William Taylor (born 1956) is a high-profile former prison inmate who served time in Auckland Prison at Paremoremo, Auckland, New Zealand. In 2016 he had spent 38 years in prison and had a total of 152 convictions.[2]As a prison inmate, he achieved a public profile as a “prison lawyer” due to initiating court action on behalf of himself and prisoners’ rights.
Prison Escapes
Taylor says he has escaped from prison twelve times, including twice in Australia. In 1998, he and three others, including murderer Graeme Burton, escaped from Auckland Prison by scaling the walls at Paremoremo, snipping through the wire at the top and getting away in a waiting Toyota Hiace. They spent a few days in a millionaire’s bach in the Coromandel. Taylor was caught after a massive police operation and returned to prison. He was released at the end of his sentence in 2001.
But what really made his name was an audacious prison break from Paremoremo, New Zealand’s maximum-security facility in 1998. The escape plot had been meticulously planned over the prison’s phones; masks, camouflage clothing and bulletproof vests were smuggled into the prison, while equiptment, inclduing firearms, was hidden outside the walls to help Taylor and his fellow fugitives evade capture.
Three inmates went on the run with Taylor, including two convicted murderers, Graeme Burton and Darren John Crowley, as well as armed robber Matthew Thompson. The escape had triggered a massive police manhunt. The fugitives spent six days on the run in Muriwai and then the Corromandel Peninsula, where they hid in a the bush and hunkered down in a $2.5 million holiday home of a wealthy American businessman.
Eventually, the police caught up with them. Taylor had three years added to his sentence. It wasn’t the first time he’d escaped from custody, nor would it be the last.
