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Former ACT Party president and convicted sex offender Tim Jago’s name suppression went on too long – advocate
A survivors’ advocate says people should not be able to get name suppression for as long as former ACT Party president Tim Jago had.
On Friday, Jago was named as the former political figure jailed last November after being found guilty of abusing two teenage boys in the 1990s.
Jago indecently assaulted two teenagers he had been mentoring through a sports club between 1995 and 1999.
Canterbury University professor of media law Ursula Cheer said it wasn’t just wealthy and prominent people who got to remain anonymous – with courts around New Zealand granting hundreds of name suppression orders every week.
NZ Herald
Former ACT Party president and convicted sex offender Tim Jago’s name suppression went on too long – advocate
Legal experts have weighed in on claims that former Act Party president Tim Jago’s name suppression went on for too long – saying the right to appeal remains an essential part of the legal process.
Five months after being convicted of abusing two teenage boys in the 1990s, the former Act Party president abandoned his appeal for continued name suppression on Friday.
A victims’ advocate group had spoken of their frustration that people in positions of power could hide their identity for as long as he did.