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An Australian justice connected Friday (October 31, 2025) sentenced a erstwhile authorities lawmaker to much than 5 years successful jailhouse for rape and intersexual assault.
The New South Wales right-leaning politician, Gareth Ward, was convicted successful July of abusing 2 men, aged 18 and 24, betwixt 2013 and 2015.
The 44-year-old nevertheless refused to measurement down until 2 weeks aboriginal erstwhile members of the State parliament were astir to ballot to oust him.
Judge Kara Shead sentenced him astatine Sydney's Parramatta District Court to 5 years and 9 months wide for the crimes: 1 number of rape and 3 of indecent assault.
She ruled that helium would not beryllium eligible for parole for 3 years and 9 months, tribunal documents showed.
The person was "deliberate and predatory" successful assaulting his archetypal unfortunate and took vantage of his 2nd unfortunate erstwhile helium was intoxicated and "vulnerable", the justice said, according to The Australian newspaper.
Ward is expected to entreaty his conviction.
