An Olympic boxer has been found guilty of bashing a truck driver in a Fyshwick street.
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But Adam Tony Forsyth, 32, did not appear in the ACT Supreme Court for the decision on Friday because he could not be found.
Forsyth pleaded not guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm over the road rage incident in November 2007.
The matter went to trial before Justice Hilary Penfold in February last year.
The judge reserved her judgment and delivered it on Friday.
Forsyth had been attempting to park his rented car on Wollongong Street when truck driver Stephen Patafta beeped his horn, as the vehicle was blocking his way.
The Athens Olympics quarter-finalist heavyweight responded with a finger sign.
The two men then got out of their vehicles and Forsyth threw several punches, leaving Mr Patafta with a broken nose, substantial bruising and a chipped tooth. Forsyth argued he had acted in self-defence and on instinct, not wanting the truck driver to invade his personal space.
Justice Penfold rejected the defence. "The evidence all leads me to the conclusion that, far from involving a threat from which Mr Forsyth needed to defend himself, this was in fact what is often called a road rage incident, in which Mr Forsyth responded not to a perceived threat to his physical safety but to verbal criticism of his driving skills, and possibly a degree of public humiliation as he sought unsuccessfully to park his car, by using his boxing skills to punish Mr Patafta," he wrote.
Forsyth's lawyer, Michael Kukulies-Smith, was told to find his client before a sentencing hearing next month.
