A former political figure\u00a0spat\u00a0on\u00a0a bar worker then led police on a foot race through central Dunedin.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The defendant, who has had name suppression since he was charged,\u00a0appeared before the Dunedin District Court this afternoon where\u00a0he pleaded guilty to counts of resisting police and disorderly\u00a0behaviour.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A charge of assault was withdrawn by the prosecution.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Court documents revealed the defendant was at a central Dunedin bar\u00a0late on\u00a0November 27 when he yelled at other patrons over\u00a0comments\u00a0he found offensive.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He was ushered out of the premises by a duty\u00a0manager\u00a0but the errant conduct continued.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The defendant threw one drink into the face of an off-duty employee, smashed another glass on the ground,\u00a0then spat at the manager.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The saliva landed on her leg, a prosecution summary noted.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Police caught up with the defendant as he walked towards the Octagon.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Despite being told repeatedly he was under arrest, the man denied that was\u00a0the case and bolted.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He was\u00a0eventually\u00a0caught and arrested in Moray Place.\u00a0<\/p>\n
At the request of counsel Sarah Saunderson-Warner, Judge Maria\u00a0Pecotic\u00a0did not enter convictions\u00a0on either\u00a0charge.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The court heard there would\u00a0likely be\u00a0an application for a discharge without conviction at sentencing in July.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ms\u00a0Saunderson-Warner also\u00a0indicated\u00a0her client would be pursuing permanent name\u00a0suppression,\u00a0and a continuation of the interim order was allowed by the judge.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Suppression was not opposed by\u00a0police.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A family member\u00a0wrote online\u00a0at the time\u00a0that the\u00a0alleged\u00a0fracas\u00a0had been sparked by\u00a0political comments on the night in question. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The defendant was remanded on bail\u00a0on condition he\u00a0not enter\u00a0the bar in question.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Both charges admitted by the defendant carry a maximum penalty of three months\u2019\u00a0imprisonment\u00a0or a fine of $2000.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A previous bail condition,\u00a0banning the man from being within 100m of Carousel Lounge Bar, was replaced with a condition prohibiting him from entering Albar in Central Dunedin.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former political figure\u00a0spat\u00a0on\u00a0a bar worker then led police on a foot race through central Dunedin.\u00a0 The defendant,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-394919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}