A prison inmate who kidnapped and assaulted a woman prison guard was today jailed indefinitely. Jeremy William Mataira, 48, was sentenced to preventive detention in the High Court in Auckland for taking the guard hostage in September, 2006, at Auckland Prison at Paremoremo.
He had earlier been found guilty by an Auckland District Court jury of assault with intent to commit sexual violation, kidnapping, assault and assault with a weapon.
Mataira barricaded himself in a storeroom with the prison guard at Auckland Prison at Paremoremo for three hours in 2006.
The guard was blindfolded and her feet were bound.
Armed police stormed into the room, throwing stun grenades and using tear gas to disable Mataira who had pulled the guard down in a choke hold.
Mataira was earlier convicted of sexual violation and attempting to rape another female prison guard in Christchurch's Paparua Prison in 1991.
