Police are looking for the people who attacked a young Queenstown man after he was assaulted twice while walking home from town, once with a baseball bat.
A 21-year-old roofer was taken to Lakes District Hospital early on Friday after being attacked on two separate occasions by four men, one a large Pacific Island or Maori man.
Detective Grant Miller, of Queenstown, said the man had been walking through Paddy Burton Park opposite the Millennium Hotel about 3am when two men punched him in the face, knocking him to the ground.
The victim called his parents and began to run home up Frankton Rd when a car he described as a four-door, lime-green saloon pulled over and four men jumped out and assaulted him a second time - one with a baseball bat.
He was hit on a knee and beaten to the ground before police and his parents found him outside 155 Frankton Rd, near Spinnaker Bay.
The victim received facial injuries, which included a black eye, and a knee fracture. He was released from hospital later on Friday morning.
A witness who heard the commotion said police arrived at the scene two minutes after the car had taken off.
