5 Aug 2025

Man seriously assaulted on Waikato walking track

3:40 pm on 5 August 2025
Auckland, New Zealand - December 24, 2020: Close up of a New Zealand police officer's uniform and badge

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A man walking with his wife on a Waikato track was left with a concussion and injuries to his face after he was assaulted by another man.

Waikato police are asking any witnesses to last week's attack to come forward.

Officers were called to the stopbank pathway Te Ara a Waiwaiā i O-rāhiri in Otorohanga about 5.10pm last Monday.

They found one man with facial injuries and a concussion after he was assaulted by a man walking two dogs - one brown and one white.

Police say they have been unable to identify that man and are asking anyone with information to get in contact with them.