A Hokitika man who crashed a party in Greymouth, assaulted a woman and broke a window, tried to avoid prosecution by shaming his accusers on Facebook.
Acen Garry Fairbrother, 19, pleaded guilty yesterday to common assault and wilful damage after the assault charge was reduced from two counts of assaulting a female.
On June 10 last year, Fairbrother was among 20 to 30 people who arrived uninvited at a party in Alexander Terrace.
Shannon Robertson, who lived at the house at the time, said police shut the party down, but Fairbrother and several others returned about 3am, even though everyone had gone to bed. When Ms Robertson got up and told him to leave, Fairbrother shouted abuse at her. He also pushed her over and kicked her knee, which was injured and in a brace at the time, but she told the court she could not remember details of the assault.
One of the invited guests, Sarah Jellyman, came out of her then-boyfriend's room when she heard yelling. She said Fairbrother spat in her face and grabbed her by the hair on his way out the door, then threw a rock through a front window.
