25 Jun 2018

Unprovoked Queenstown attack: Police seek assailants

5:08 pm on 25 June 2018

Police in Queenstown want to identify two men involved in an assault early last Thursday morning.

Police want the public's help identifying these men.

Police want the public's help identifying these men. Photo: Supplied / New Zealand Police

Police said the men left the Pig and Whistle Bar on Ballarat Street at about 5am and passed the Exchange Bar where a man was sitting on the ground.

They then returned to the man, kicking and punching him in what police said appeared to be an "unprovoked" attack.

The man suffered facial swelling, a bleeding nose and a sore body in the assault.

Police said one man was described as being in his early 20s, wearing a backwards cap and an unbuttoned red shirt and with a red t-shirt underneath with the slogan 'listen to homebrew' on it.

The other man was wearing an unbuttoned dark top with a reddish top underneath, tan pants, a bucket hat and sneakers.

Police said he was described as being in his early 20s with chin stubble.