A Kiwi mountain man who claimed police tried to make him look as bad as the Christchurch mosque shooter for staying in his car during lockdown restrictions has had his conviction overturned on appeal.
Fraser Wright Maddigan, 45, was spoken to three times by New Zealand police after leaving his Christchurch home and driving 600km to Te Anau, where he was arrested during a lockdown.
Maddigan was fined $1000 and also ordered to pay $130 court costs on April 2, 2020, for breaching the Civil Defence Emergency Management Act by deciding to self-isolate in his Honda Civic during a state of emergency.
New Zealand police arrested a mountain man who claimed to be self-isolating in his car during a Covid lockdown. Although he was convicted and fined, the man won his appeal