[3] He went to school at Campion College, Gisborne, before working on oil rigs, initially in the North Sea but later elsewhere around the world for almost a decade.
[2] Garrett is the author of the "three strikes" legislation which was supported by the National Party and incorporated into the Sentencing and Parole Reform Act 2010 which became law in May 2010.
He said he used a method shown in the novel The Day of the Jackal, and obtained the birth certificate of a child who died in infancy around the same time Garrett was born.
He later pleaded guilty to doing so in front of the New Zealand Law Society's Lawyers and Conveyancer's Committee.
This led to the committee formally censuring him, prohibiting him from practicing law for a period of one year, and ordering him to pay $8430 costs.