Former New Zealand domestic cricketer Cody Andrews sent to jail after repetitive breach of protection orders

Cody Andrews, the former Auckland and Northern Districts cricketer, has been sentenced jail by Judge Philip Connell in the Hamilton District Court. He was at the court several times for multiple breaches after being sentenced for not obeying a protection order and assaulting his pregnant former partner by biting her.

Cody, in May 2017, was given supervision and the 80 hours community work when he first appeared before the court for his wrongdoing. But he breached four orders from December 2017 again and also admitted the same only to appear again in the Hamilton court in July last year. The judge Connell then had termed his behaviour as obsessive and gave Andrews a final chance and also warned that a repeat of the same would lead him into the jail.

Andrews repeated the offence

But Cody Andrews didn’t stop and repeated the offence in less than a month. He texted the victim as many as 16 times and further emailed her 10 times in November last year. Cody has been held in the custody since November 16 according to NZ Herald and his lawyer Melissa James urged the judge to hand her client another intense supervision instead of sending him to the jail.

She also stressed that Cody Andrews has spent three months of his sentence already and had time to reflect on his life during this period. But Judge Connell denied the same saying that he was left with no option now after Cody’s repetitive breaches.

“It’s a concern to me that he can’t comply with supervision and he demonstrates an inability with that by not being able to comply with home detention which is another factor in all of this … I’ve got a real struggle with anything other than a term of imprisonment.

“My concern is that you don’t seem to be able to comply with a judicial warning,” he told Andrews. “You have taken no notice of that and 16 times you have contacted the victim,” Connell said in his statement.

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