You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. Swade Davis is now serving a cumulative jail term of seven years and one month. Swade James Davis, 29, was back at the scene of the crime yesterday β this time appearing by video link from Auckland Prison where he is a maximum-security inmate.
Davis was jailed for five years and one month in August for a violent armed burglary but at the conclusion of the hearing, he refused to leave the dock. Corrections staff attempted to usher him through a door down to the cells but the defendant "puffed his chest and clenched his fists".
The victim, a police officer on court-escort duties, attempted to persuade him to stand down but Davis was in a defiant mood. Judge David Robinson said the punch of the officer was "calculated and delivered with very considerable force". He had taken five weeks off work and was worried about rebuilding his confidence β "all because he did no more than his duty to keep us safe", Judge Robinson said.
Davis later admitted to police he wanted to escape the courtroom, attack the judge or anyone who got in his way. The defendant had previously acknowledged his anti-authority streak and put it down to trauma as a child. In the last decade he had assaulted police on three occasions and had racked up convictions for resisting arrest and intimidation. Now serving a sentence of more than seven years, he would likely be there for a significant period, the lawyer said.
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