A German man who attacked his 24-year-old daughter at Franz Josef Glacier after a confrontation over reversing their car has been fined $1000.
Thomas Marschall, 55, and his daughter, both from Frankfurt, were travelling around New Zealand last month. The court heard his daughter attacked him first when she became angry that he was not helping her as she tried to reverse the car.
Her father then assaulted her while she was on the ground outside the car. She needed four stitches to her lip and suffered a large contusion behind her ear.
Lawyer Richard Bodle said Marschall was heavily intoxicated, as was his daughter.
"Mr Marschall has not been allowed contact with his daughter, nor has he been able to contact her," Mr Bodle said.
