A “well-liked” school teacher and film-maker who gave teen girls cannabis and assaulted one sought to avoid conviction after missing out on movie work.
Llanyon Joe “had to step away” from his work on award-winning 2023 Kiwi film Home Kills after being charged, the Rotorua District Court heard on Monday.
He was listed as an executive producer on the indie film’s IMBD but does not appear in the credits on the film’s website. His IMBD page also says he worked on television series such as Slime Cup, Crash the Bash and Underbelly: Land of the Long Green Cloud.
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