Convicted criminal Alan Titford is to appeal his conviction and sentence on charges including violence and fraud.
Allan Titford. Photo: RNZ
In November this year, the Northland farmer was sentenced at the High Court in Whangarei to 24 years in jail for 39 offences including rape, repeated assaults on his wife and children, fraud and arson.
Titford, 53, came to prominence in the late 1980s when part of his land at Maunganui Bluff, north of Dargaville, was subject to a Treaty of Waitangi claim.
After a lengthy jury trial earlier this year, he was found guilty of assaulting his wife and seven children over a period of more than 20 years and burning down his farmhouse - a crime he blamed at the time on local Maori.
The Crown Law Office has confirmed Titford has filed a notice of appeal, and says a court date will be set in the new year.
