A bartender at a hens' party has been found guilty of unlawful sexual connection with a guest. Harland Munton, 26, was acquitted of rape but found guilty of another sex act which the jury found the woman did not consent to.
Judge Gerard Winter sentenced Munton to 10 months' home detention. He said Munton, and others, "needed to be deterred from non-consensual intimate actions during the act of sexual intercourse".
On the evening of December 10, 2010, the victim was at a private hens' party at an Auckland mansion.
The intoxicated woman had gone to sleep in an upstairs room.
Munton continued to serve drinks to the other women and then he started drinking.