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A Queenstown concert-goer who told police officers they were "all just rapists" has lost his appeal against conviction on charges of using insulting language and resisting arrest.
Simon Paul Aurelia Evans was fined $500 with $260 court costs in the district court following an incident at a winery concert attended by 3000 last June.
In the High Court at Invercargill, Justice John Hansen said Evans was displeased with the police for having closed a bar early.
When the officers asked him to move on, he was said to have told them: "I suppose you are going to have group sex with my girlfriend now and rape her using batons and whatever else you like to use."
He also said the police were "all just rapists anyway".
Justice Hansen said Evans claimed that his words did not amount to insulting language.
But the judge said that Evans was implying that the two constables would personally indulge in such illegal behaviour, aggravated by kidnap and brutality.
The words used were beyond what anyone should have to bear, and if said to a member of the public would likely have resulted in a "physical reaction."
Justice Hansen said "I do not consider that in a fair and democratic society his [Evans'] comments could be seen as anything other than insults."
