Two overseas tourists viciously assaulted during a robbery in Northland have described a teenager who was involved in the crime as "an embarrassment to himself, his culture, and his country".
The comment, contained in the victim impact statement, was directed at Mark Nathan who this week was sentenced by the High Court at Whangarei to five months home detention on two charges of aggravated robbery.
Justice Kit Toogood noted during his sentencing what the tourists thought of the 19-year-old offender.
Nathan, together with Harley Williams, 23, and another person rocked a campervan in which an Argentinian man and a Polish woman were sleeping in on the Ahipara foreshore carpark in the early hours of March 25 last year.
Williams, who punched and kicked the tourists, was the main offender and was sentenced on Wednesday to three years and seven months in jail.