A Wanaka bar will be closed for four days after the co-owner bit the earlobe off a patron being ejected by staff.
After a brawl at the Bullock Bar, on October 24 last year, co-owner Sean Michael Colbourne, 43, pleaded guilty to biting off a patron's earlobe.
Colbourne and the bouncers became involved after Nicholas Gee, 25, who had been drinking at the bar, became unco-operative and refused to leave.
Colbourne was convicted in the Queenstown District Court on March 23 on one count of injuring Mr Gee with intent to injure him and was sentenced to eight months' home detention, 250 hours' community work, and ordered to pay $10,000 in emotional harm reparation to Mr Gee.
At a Liquor Licensing Authority hearing in Queenstown on August 31, Judge John Hole reserved his decision on the case, in which Queenstown liquor licensing officer Sergeant Keith Newell sought the suspension of the bar's on and off-licences.