Thrown bottle led to assault

A Hamilton man who assaulted a partygoer during a riotous teen party lashed out after he was hit by a bottle, the Hamilton District Court was told.

Dennis Darryl Paekau, 47, a truck driver, was yesterday convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon in the next nine months after earlier pleading guilty to assault.

Paekau was supervising a house party on the night of February 14 this year when a group of teens arrived uninvited.

Paekau and the other adults called the party off and told the teens to leave when a large fight broke out between partygoers.

Witnesses reported seeing partygoers attack each other with baseball bats and bits of timber.

During the skirmish, Paekau was struck by a flying beer bottle and required three stitches to the back of his head.

Paekau admitted assaulting the bottle-thrower in retaliation.

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