A man accused of assaulting two police officers who were defusing a brawl in Blaketown on Saturday night has been granted bail.
Logan Stanton, 20, of Camerons, is facing the two charges of assault plus others of forced entry and disorderly behaviour.
He and Casey Joseph Mahuika, 20, of Blaketown, had been in custody since their arrest on Saturday until they appeared this morning in Greymouth District Court.
Mahuika faces two charges of forced entry and one of disorder. He too was granted bail, Lawyer Eymard Bradley saying that police no longer opposed it because other arrests "facilitated by the defendants" had been made.
He said that Stanton accepted, but regretted that he had punched one of the constables because he had been grabbed roughly by the throat.