Vanuatu backpacker

Tongan fruit-picker fined for punching a backpacker from Vanuatu

Twenty-six-year-old Maka Leohiva Taliauli pleaded guilty to one count of assault occasioning bodily harm in Bundaberg Magistrates Court on Monday.

The Daily Mail reported that Maka was fined for fighting outside Childers’ Federal Hotel after drinking with friends on 11 July.

He punched the backpacker in a ‘consensual’ fight after being separated. The victim sustained a cut on his cheek and bruise below the eye from the blow to the right side of his face.

Maka knew the victim and they were living in the same accommodation, which was no longer the case.