Listen Now: 
A Northland farmer who whipped up popular sentiment against Treaty of Waitangi claims in the 1990s has been jailed for 24 years on sex, violence and arson charges.
Sentencing Allan Titford in the Whangarei District Court yesterday, Judge Duncan Harvey said Titford burned down his own home at Aranga near Dargaville in the early 1990s.
He claimed the fire was set by members of Te Roroa who were seeking the return of a reserve on his farm.
Judge Harvey says is time for the people of New Zealand to learn the truth.
Titford was found guilty on 39 charges included assault on a woman and children, sexual violation, arson, using a document with intent to defraud, threatening to kill, assault with a weapon, perjury, attempting to pervert justice and discharging a firearm.
Name suppression, which stayed on while Titford stood unsuccessfully for the Far North mayoralty, was lifted at the request of his ex-wife Susan Cochrane, who said he used her as a sex slave for 22 years.
Copyright © 2013, UMA Broadcasting Ltd
RELATED NEWS
