Prison Dole

This could be more lucrative than selling drugs or smashing ATM machines. Maybe it's a plot by the Government to get the Mongrel Mob out of the crime business and onto a benefit. Maybe they'll even vote Labour.

There's also the little matter of the NZH's wording. Note the Herald's bloodless description of Sam Te Hei's crime:

One is Te Hei's brother, Sam, also a Mongrel Mob member, who was convicted in 1987 of kicking a 16-year-old girl to death with his steel-capped boots after she refused sex.

How about this instead:

Gangster Sam Te Hei was convicted in 1987 after he stomped a child to death with steel-capped boots when she resisted being raped.