{"id":528693,"date":"2026-07-16T08:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T08:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/528693\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T08:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T08:49:09","slug":"former-act-president-tim-jago-jailed-for-another-sex-abuse-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/528693\/","title":{"rendered":"Former ACT president Tim Jago jailed for another sex abuse charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">Former ACT Party president Tim Jago has been sentenced to a further 18 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to a new sex abuse charge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Jago pleaded guilty to the charge of sexual violation by unlawful sexual connection last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">He was sentenced today at the Auckland District Court, with the term to be served cumulatively \u2014 in addition to his existing sentence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Jago was also ordered to pay $1500 in reparation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Jago was convicted in August last year of indecently assaulting two teenage boys he knew through an Auckland surf lifesaving club in the 1990s, and was sentenced to two years and six months in prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">He later appealed both the convictions and sentence, but the Court of Appeal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2025\/09\/29\/former-act-party-president-tim-jagos-appeals-dismissed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dismissed his case in September 2025<\/a>, describing the incidents as &#8220;serious and repeated sexual offending&#8221; that had &#8220;long-lasting effects&#8221; on the complainants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">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=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Jago was president of the ACT Party from 2019 until his resignation in January 2023, when the original charges were laid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former ACT Party president Tim Jago has been sentenced to a further 18 months in prison after he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-528693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528693","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=528693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}