23 Aug 2024

Jury out in sexual abuse case against former political figure

From Checkpoint, 4:45 pm on 23 August 2024

The man, who has ongoing name suppression but is not a sitting MP, is on trial in Auckland this week, who is accused of sexually abusing two teenagers in the 1990s. He is accused of indecently assaulting the teenagers in towns in the Auckland and Waikato regions between 1995 and 1999. This morning, Crown prosecutor Rebekah Thompson told the jury it was now their job to decide if they found the complainants to be credible, Anneke Smith reports.