A 20-year-old man s been arrested after a reported assault on the Crown Range in late March 5 May 2021
Late in March, a 21-year-old told Police he was flagged down about 10pm by a stranded motorist.
He says he was then assaulted and robbed of his backpack and contents.
But, Police have now found out the pair knew each other and pre-arranged the meeting, which was actually at a Coronet Park carpark.
The arrested man is due to appear in Queenstown District Court on Monday.
The victim is expected to be charged with making a false statement to Police.
Queenstown good Samaritan attack: Robber and victim both charged after alleged robbery and false statement
5 May, 2021 03:44 AM
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Anna Leask is a senior reporter for the New Zealand Heraldanna.leask@nzherald.co.nz@AnnaLeask
A man has been arrested and charged after a violent attack on a good Samaritan in Queenstown in March.
But the alleged victim will also be charged after police established the attack was not random and he knew the accused.
In March police appealed for information about the attack, saying a Good Samaritan suffered a fractured jaw after an assault and robbery at the Eastburn Rd layby on the Queenstown side of the Crown Range.
Convicting Enting on the more recent charge, Judge John Strettell sentenced him to four months home detention and gave him a second strike under the three strikes legislation. Enting was also ordered to undertake 150 hours of community work and pay $1500 in reparation to the victim. The maximum sentence for the charge was seven years imprisonment. Queenstown police prosecutor, sergeant Ian Collin, said that on January 8 Enting had been socialising in central Queenstown with friends. The victim went to his flat at about 9pm before going to sleep in a bedroom, but woke at about 11.50pm to find Enting touching her hip and kissing her in the same area.
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“You have come as close as you possibly can to a sizeable term of imprisonment without actually going to prison,” the judge said. Singleton’s claim a friend left the pills with him because the friend had to leave New Zealand due to visa issues stretched credibility, the judge said. “This type of offending has become all too prevalent in Queenstown.” In a letter to the court, Singleton said he saw other people selling ecstasy and though it would be easy. “You acknowledge that drugs in town are rampant with every second person taking drugs, the judge said. “You and your friends would take ecstasy whenever there was an event on.”