The 33-year-old appeared in the Dunedin District Court yesterday on a slew of charges, marking a crime-riddled 2025 for the recidivist offender.
He made headlines in 2021 when his wild driving ended in police smashing his window and dousing him in capsicum spray.
It has not deterred his aggressive exploits towards officers, however.
Humphreys violently resisted arrest in 2024 and as officers tried to cuff him, he claimed he would stab a judge if he was hauled before the court.
In March last year, he was at it again.
Along with a teenage girl, Humphreys approached Super Liquor in Princes St and shoulder barged the glass door, causing it to shatter.
He then used his body weight to force open the metal grate and allow the girl access to the alcohol inside.
They quickly scarpered, but police later found Humphreys, in a typically non-compliant mood.
Officers tried to pat him down after he claimed to have a knife and threatened to slit one of their throats.
Humphreys wrestled with them, kicked one in the leg and spat at them as they forced him against the patrol car.
Once he was bundled into the vehicle, he deliberately slammed his head into a window, damaging it, then tried to headbutt another officer.
Humphreys spat at them and another, claiming both times that he had Aids and hepatitis C.
Police said he was pepper-sprayed during the melee and later needed to be chemically sedated.
The court heard Humphreys’ crimes began weeks earlier, when he was yelling abuse and aiming racist slurs at bystanders at the city’s bus hub.
When police warned him, he directed an ‘‘obscene gesture’’ at them and continued his foul-mouthed rant.
Humphreys was placed on the Child Sex Offender Register in 2017 after trying to send a depraved letter to a high-risk paedophile in jail.
One of his obligations was to disclose to authorities if he left his address for more than 48 hours, but he failed to do that three times at the start of last year.
When he was finally locked up, a restraining order was made to protect a 16-year-old girl with whom he had been consorting.
But Humphreys (also known as Justin Witchall) sent four letters to his mother in July, addressed to an alias, which were passed on to the victim and called her 38 times in less than a month.
Judge Hermann Retzlaff jailed the defendant for 18 months, but because of the time he had spent on remand, he would be immediately released.
