A court hearing into the police raid on the Coatesville mansion of Megaupload founder and internet piracy accused Kim Dotcom will continue on Wednesday.
The hearing at the High Court in Auckland follows on from a court ruling in late June that the search warrants used to carry out the raid in January were invalid.
The hearing is set down for three days.
On Tuesday, Dotcom told the court that he was punched and kicked by police during the raid. He said he was working on his bed when police arrived on the morning on the raid.
Dotcom was found by police in the safe room and he said he put his hands up when police entered the room, but that he was punched, kicked and pushed to the ground.
He told the court that he and his family are reminded of what happened during the raid every day.
"Our beautiful home was turned into a haunted house," Dotcom said.
"Life is not the same after what happened."
Dotcom told crown prosecutor John Pike he would have co-operated with police had they knocked on his door, rather than banging it down.
On Tuesday afternoon a member of the police special tactics group, whose name is suppressed, was questioned by defence lawyer Paul Davison about whether the police response was appropriate given the level of risk posed by Dotcom.
Dotcom and his three co-accused, Mathias Ortmann, Fin Batato and Bram Van der Kolk, face copyright, racketeering and money laundering charges in the US.
An extradition hearing is scheduled for March next year.
NZN