A former New Zealand wrestler has been sentenced to 12 years and nine months prison for historic sexual violation charges in the Christchurch High Court on Wednesday.
Devon Charles Bond was convicted of three counts of sexual violation, aggravated burglary, assault with a weapon and abduction in a knife-point rape and home invasion that happened 22 years ago.
He was a New Zealand representative at world championship wrestling events.
On May 9, 1994, Bond cut the power to the house of a Burwood woman. With his face masked he entered the house through the internal garage and met the woman in her hallway.
He held a knife to her throat, tied her hands behind her back with a piece of clothesline wire, put a pillowcase over her head then raped her.
He then went to the kitchen and took the contents of her handbag, pulled the telephone cord out and left the house.
Bond was only charged with the crime in 2014, when a DNA test connected him to the cold case.
He maintained innocence until the morning his jury trial began in the Christchurch High Court, where he pled guilty to all six charges - burglary of a house while armed with a knife, assaulting the woman while armed with a knife, kidnapping her with intent to have sex, two charges of sexual violation and rape.
Until that morning Bond, 49, thought he had got away with the crime.
It's not his first conviction either. In 1995, he began stalking a woman jogger who would run along the Ashley River Forest every morning.
On May 30, 1995 he grabbed the jogger, dragged her to the boot of his car. As it travelled down the road she managed to release the boot lock and run for help.
Bond was jailed for nine years for abducting with intent to rape.
In a victim impact statement read to the court by the 1994 victim's lawyer, she said "you are a nasty and evil man who needs to be taken off the streets for the longest time."
Bond must serve at least eight years before he can be considered for parole.
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