Investment manager cleared of assault
The judge refused an application for permanent name suppression, however the man’s lawyer has been given leave to appeal.
In the Auckland District Court this month, the jury heard how it has been almost a year since rising tensions, involving windows overlooking the complainant’s property and a screen overshadowing the investment manager’s garden, blew up.
On the evening of Good Friday last year, the investment manager had been playing the macarena loudly and repeatedly outside and the neighbor sprayed the speaker with a hose. This prompted the investment manager to jump the fence and the two men began a physical fight, with the complainant’s wife spraying them both with a hose.
The investment manager landed blows to the neighbor’s head, but the complainant reciprocated and split the investment manager’s eye also.
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