Nooroa Teika demands ‘smokes, weed, everything you have’ in violent bus stop robbery in Mackay

He told police ‘if we were in Auckland I would f*** you up’.

New Zealand national Nooroa Teika faces possible deportation after pleading guilty to robbery with violence. Picture: Christopher Chan

A New Zealand national faces possible deportation after the “opportunistic and unsophisticated” violent robbery of a Mackay teen waiting for a bus.

“He demanded smokes, weed and then ‘everything you have’,” Crown Prosecutor Samantha O’Rourke said.

His victim just hoped his attacker “learns from his experience”.

Mackay District Court heard the victim had been sitting in a friend’s car waiting for the bus when Nooroa Teika walked up to the window “clearly agitated and aggressive”.

He reached through the window, grabbing the victim’s shirt.

The 19-year-old man offered $10 cash and a debit card before Teika demanded he “get out or he would bash him”.

“He punched the (victim) at an awkward angle three times and took the card,” Ms O’Rourke said.

The court heard Teika seemed confused about how to use the debit card and told the victim and his friend not to drive away. They did and called police.

Teika was found and arrested soon after.

He told officers “if we were in Auckland I would f*** you up”.

Ms O’Rourke described the offending as “opportunistic and unsophisticated”.

The 44 year old pleaded guilty to robbery with violence and street-type offences committed between October 24, 2020 to January 4, 2021 at Mackay.

In what Judge Julie Dick labelled a “very reasonable victim impact statement” the teen wrote he hoped Teika “learns from his experience”.

Teika has spent almost seven months in custody.

Defence barrister Scott McLennan said his client had moved from New Zealand to Australia with his partner and child in 2012 with the relationship ending soon after.

Mr McLennan said Teika moved from Sydney to Mackay in February 2020 after he was encouraged by his uncle.

Now he faced possible deportation as a result of his offending.

The court heard he found work but was unhappy and had a falling out with his uncle, who asked him to move out of the house.

Soon after he also lost his job and was homeless.

Mr McLennan said Teika wanted to go back to Sydney but could not because of Covid.

“He told me, ‘I was feeling depressed and lost, I lost my way, mate, I really did. It’s not like me, it’s not how I was raised’,” Mr McLennan said.

The court heard it was in this context Teika began drinking.

“He’s living (at Ozcare) with other people with alcohol and drug problems, he didn’t have any work for the first time in his life since he’d left school,” Mr McLennan said.

“The punches were ineffective and caused no real injury.

“He was extremely intoxicated.’

Mr McLennan labelled it an “environmental alcoholism”.

Teika was jailed for three years to be suspended on October 4, 2021. Convictions were recorded.