PHOTO: Manu Vatuvei. FILE
According to STUFF former rugby league star Manu Vatuvei has been sentenced to three years and seven months in jail for importing methamphetamine.
Meanwhile, Vatuvei’s brother Lopini Mafi has been sentenced to seven years and two months behind bars for his involvement as the New Zealand head of the “unsophisticated” drug ring.
The brothers appeared at south Auckland’s Manukau District Court on Wednesday where Judge Jonathan Moses said the pair had contributed to the methamphetamine problem in New Zealand and their actions needed to be denounced.
LAWRENCE SMITH/STUFF
Manu Mafi-Vatuvei with his lawyer Vivienne Feyen arriving at the Manukau District Court ahead of his sentencing.
Judge Moses accepted Vatuvei became involved in the drug ring after a sequence of unfortunate life events.
“Your fall from grace is a punishment in itself,” Judge Moses said.
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