A jury yesterday took 90 minutes to find bouncer Jonathan Dixon guilty of illegally taking CCTV footage of English rugby player Mike Tindall cavorting with a former girlfriend in a Queenstown bar.
Dixon, 42, was charged with accessing a computer and obtaining property without the right to do so after he posted the footage of Tindall - husband of the Queen's granddaughter, Zara Phillips, and then captain of the England rugby team - when he visited the Base/Altitude Bar during the Rugby World Cup in 2011.
Dixon took the footage from the CCTV cameras of the bar, where he worked as contracted security.
He said he believed at the time he had the right to take the footage and do what he wanted with it.
The four-day jury trial took place in Invercargill this week.