Three people arrested in Gore over an attack on three people in the Central Otago town of Clyde were due to appear in the Gore District Court on Wednesday 4 November.
Police said they were called to Sunderland Street in Clyde at about 11.50pm on Saturday 24 October after receiving a report of an assault on three people, all of whom had minor injuries.
Five days later, on Thursday 29 October, officers arrested two men, aged 39 and 41, and a 40-year-old woman in Gore. Between them they face a charge of injuring with intent to injure and two charges of assault with intent to injure, police said in a statement released on Friday 30 October.
Police have not said how the three came to be in Gore, or whether they live in Eastern Southland or had travelled from Central Otago. None of them has been named, and the Herald has no information about pleas or whether any of the accused is seeking name suppression. All three were due before the court on Wednesday; the outcome of that appearance had not been published when this story went live.
Despite the arrests, police are still asking for help. They want to hear from anyone who saw the assault, or who was in the Sunderland Street area between 11.30pm and midnight that Saturday and noticed anything unusual. They are also asking for CCTV or dashcam footage from the area in that half-hour.
Sunderland Street is the historic main street of Clyde, with pubs, cafes and accommodation serving the Otago Central Rail Trail, and the assault happened on the Saturday night of Labour Weekend, one of the town's busiest weekends of the year.
The case is one of two in the Southern police district this week in which officers have asked the public for footage. Police are also appealing for CCTV from around Charlotte Street in Balclutha after an alleged serious assault at the town's motor camp on Sunday 1 November.
The Gore District Court handles cases from Eastern and Northern Southland and sits on scheduled days with judges travelling from Invercargill and Dunedin.
Anyone with information about the Clyde assault can call 105 or report online, quoting file number 261025/0663. Information can be given anonymously to Crime Stoppers on 0800 555 111.
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