A Taupo man on home detention for attacking an Asian teenager allegedly spent his time at home posting white supremacist statements online and making light of his sentence.
Brendon Rimmer was sentenced to six months' home detention in Taupo District Court this month and ordered to pay $350reparation after pleading guilty to three charges of common assault.
The charges relate to an incident in Napier in July when Rimmer approached a group of four teenagers - aged between 15 and 17 - and verbally abused them before assaulting some of them.
Police told the court that Rimmer asked "why are you hanging around with this chink"? He then asked an Asian teenager what he was doing in "my country" before saying "why are you here? Get out of my country".
The Taupo Times reported that Rimmer then spat in the teenager's face before hitting him in the face.
However, the paper said Rimmer operated a homepage on the website NewSaxon.org, a site described as Bebo for white supremacists.
After his sentencing, postings were made to his homepage making fun of his sentence and to organise a racially motivated online meeting.
In one posting to the site he described how good his home detention had been.
"Yeah mate not too bad, actually heaps of ladies have been around to visit, haven't had a night by myself in bed all week," he posted.
Garth McVicar of the Sensible Sentencing Trust said the sentence was a mockery.
He said offenders thought home detention was great, describing how much easier it was for them.
"The judge was seriously mistaken giving him home detention."
Mr McVicar said home detention was being used to unload the prison population "putting members of the public at serious risk".
