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The corporal who assaulted his subordinates while serving in East Timor will serve 60 days in a military jail before being dismissed from the New Zealand Army.
Corporal Paul Dudley was today found guilty of punching one soldier under his command and throwing a cup of hot coffee at another by a panel of three army officers and a civilian judge advocate later today.
Dudley was convicted at a court martial of the two assaults, on Privates Mark Pullan and Samuel Millar, while they were serving in East Timor last year.
Dudley was also found guilty of criticising his superiors when failing to follow orders, using threatening language by telling his subordinates: "when I find the nark, watch out", and allowing his soldiers to watch DVDs while on sentry duty at East Timor's Becora Prison.
He was found not guilty of a charge of kicking Private Pullan while he was detaining a suspect on the ground.
Dudley pleaded guilty at the outset of the court martial to eight charges including assaults on the two privates with a Steyr rifle.
During the court martial, at Canterbury's Burnham Military Camp, he was found not guilty of threatening to shoot Private Pullan because of a lack of evidence.
