A man jailed for eight years for killing an undercover police officer has had his appeal against his sentence dismissed.
Iain Clegg was found guilty of the manslaughter of Sergeant Don Wilkinson, who was shot with a high-powered airgun while carrying out an operation in South Auckland in 2008.
A lawyer for Clegg, one of two men convicted over the killing, argued that the eight-year sentence given to his client was excessive.
He said Clegg was not directly responsible for Sgt Wilkinson's death and that none of the injuries he inflicted were life-threatening.
But the Court of Appeal said a deterrent sentence was plainly called for, because the officer was pursued and brutally attacked.
A second man, John Skinner, was sentenced to a minimum of 15 years for Sgt Wilkinson's murder.
