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New Zealand's most notorious slavedriver and trafficker has failed in a bid to have his sentence shortened.
Joseph Matamata was jailed for 11 years in 2020 for using 13 people as slaves and 10 charges of human trafficking.
But the Court of Appeal has set aside two of the trafficking convictions, because the attorney general had not given delegation for a decision on those charges being brought.
The cour
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