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Bash victim’s plea
Ryan Keen
04 Feb 2010

 
Mean streets: This footage shows a man attacked on Sunday at 5.04am; police want to identify and talk to these three men
A friend of a Queenstown man brutally beaten downtown last Sunday says the victim wants his attackers “dealt with”.

Police want to talk to these three men  after receiving a report of a 35-year-old Queens­towner being assaulted.

The victim was using the ATM at ASB on Camp Street at 5.04am last Sunday when the vicious bashing occurred.

He had two teeth knocked out – when kicked in the head while on the ground – and also suffered a bloody nose.
The pictured men were captured on ASB and SkyCity Casino CCTV while at the scene and later when running away.

A mate of the victim tells Mountain Scene his friend has had two false teeth inserted to replace the pair knocked out.

“He had a lot of bruising too. He doesn’t want to say much - he’s obviously really unhappy. He just wants the guys to be arrested and dealt with,” the mate says.

Queenstown constable Sean Drader says it appears the attackers had been arguing with the victim earlier at Fergburger on Shotover St before going their separate ways.

A friend of the victim was having an argument with someone in the Fergburger queue and the victim went over to try and defuse it, Drader says.

The victim got his burger and left with friends to catch a taxi near Brazz but crossed the road by himself to get money from the ASB.

A video supplied to police by ASB shows two attackers simultaneously punching the victim. He falls to the ground and one of the attackers then viciously kicks him in the head.

Drader says a third person may also have been involved.

“As soon as he got attacked, his mates ran across the road. One ran down Cow Lane chasing these guys.”
The friend caught up with one of the attackers, who ended up on the ground before managing to throw a few punches and escape, Drader says.



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Comment by nortont - added on 05 Feb 2010 01:40p.m.
CCTV image qualtiy for identification Having represented the CCTV industry for 20 years, it still astounds me why installers of video surveillance still do not understand the requirements to make a CCTV image useful. The above image is a good image but it does not meet the requirement.

Industry standards do exist but outside of government are seldom followed. They categorise CCTV into 4 main applications
1 – Observe - Generally observe/monitor behaviour within a broad area
2 – Detect - Verify an incident after an alarm or report
3 – Recognise - Monitor/track an individual person, object or vehicle
4 – Identify - Capture enough detail to identify a person, object or vehicle

For most installations, people are installing cameras that meet either 1 or 2 above, when they actually wanted 3 or 4.

In the image above, it would be classed as a type 3 - Recognise, which means if you know the person you could recognise them but if they are unknown you could not use it as strong evidence in locating the person.
The image should be a type 4 - Identify, in which case the scene should be much tighter. We call this quality 1-ICU (often remembered as 'I see you') The height of the image should be that of an average person and this will result in their face occupying 15% of the scene, which will give 88 pixels across on a 4CIF image.
Many other factors also need to be considered in this calculation but assuming everything was recorded at 4CIF this is the basics

In the above image, the face only occupies 6% of the scene. Less than half what is recommended for ID quality, which I am sure the ATM owners were believing they had.

The solution?
In most systems we design at IndigoVision, before we even look at the camera positions we ask "what is the purpose of this camera?" In most cases it it to identify but the client also wants an overview of the surrounding area. This is actually 2 purposes. A type 4 and a type 1or 2.
The reality is 1 camera, 1 application. So in many situations, we need 2 or more cameras. 1 watching a specific point or a door way where the person must pass and a second for the overview. This obviously has a cost associated and is sometimes perceived as a salesman trying to make more money but when it comes down to it, if you can not identify and convict due a to poorly designed CCTV system, why have one at all.

Tim Norton