{"id":525229,"date":"2026-07-14T07:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T07:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/525229\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T07:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T07:55:09","slug":"former-act-party-tim-jago-president-admits-fresh-historical-sex-abuse-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/525229\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Act Party Tim Jago president admits fresh historical sex abuse charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">Jago\u2019s lawyer, Ian Brookie, declined to comment on his behalf.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">In August 2024, the disgraced former Act Party president was separately <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/former-political-figure-found-guilty-of-indecent-assault\/I7GR7JKRMRBIDANGV6RNAAHH7U\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/former-political-figure-found-guilty-of-indecent-assault\/I7GR7JKRMRBIDANGV6RNAAHH7U\/\" target=\"_blank\">found guilty by a jury of the indecent assault of two teenage boys<\/a> he mentored through a sports club during the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Tim Jago. Photo \/ RNZ, Nick Monro\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Tim Jago. Photo \/ RNZ, Nick Monro<\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">The former political heavyweight was sentenced to two-and-a-half years\u2019 imprisonment and unsuccessfully appealed both his sentence and convictions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">He had argued that some of the charges should not have been considered and that the judge\u2019s directions to the jury were inadequate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">Katie Harris is an Auckland-based journalist who covers issues such as sexual assault, workplace misconduct, media, crime and justice. She joined the Herald in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jago\u2019s lawyer, Ian Brookie, declined to comment on his behalf. In August 2024, the disgraced former Act Party&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1903,4619,16489,5811,32294,2740,8456,14724,21081,174230,111,139,69,28703,4762,2572,7680,17703,213,46001],"class_list":["post-525229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-abuse","tag-act","tag-admits","tag-admitted","tag-charge","tag-former","tag-fresh","tag-further","tag-historical","tag-jago","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-offending","tag-party","tag-president","tag-sex","tag-sexual","tag-sports","tag-tim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}