{"id":10348,"date":"2025-10-31T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T04:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/former-nsw-mp-gareth-ward-sentenced-to-almost-six-years-in-prison-for-sexually-abusing-two-men\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T10:00:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T04:30:48","slug":"former-nsw-mp-gareth-ward-sentenced-to-almost-six-years-in-prison-for-sexually-abusing-two-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/former-nsw-mp-gareth-ward-sentenced-to-almost-six-years-in-prison-for-sexually-abusing-two-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NSW MP Gareth Ward sentenced to almost six years in prison for sexually abusing two men"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nshorts-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nshorts-cat lang-en\">\u090f\u0928 \u0936\u0949\u0930\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0938'<\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-headline\">Former NSW MP Gareth Ward sentenced to almost six years in prison for sexually abusing two men<\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-summary\">Ward appeared via video link from Cessnock prison, having resigned as the member for Kiama in early AugustFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastFormer New South Wales MP Gareth Ward has been sentenced to five years and nine months in prison after he was found guilty in July of sexually abusing two young men.Ward was sentenced by judge Kara Shead on Friday in the Parramatta district court. Ward, who had been remanded in custody while he awaited sentencing, appeared via video link from Cessnock prison. Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2025\/oct\/31\/gareth-ward-sentenced-for-sexually-abusing-two-men-ntwnfb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nshorts-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-audio-section\" style=\"margin-top:15px;padding:10px;background:#f5f5f5;border-radius:5px\"><strong>Listen:<\/strong> <audio controls style=\"width:100%;margin:10px 0\">Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:5px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&#038;tl=en&#038;client=tw-ob&#038;q=Ward+appeared+via+video+link+from+Cessnock+prison%2C+having+resigned+as+the+member+for+Kiama+in+early+AugustFollow+our+Australia+news+live+blog+for+latest+updatesGet+our+breaking+news+email%2C+free+app+or\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#0073aa;text-decoration:none\">\u2193 Download Audio<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N Shorts Former NSW MP Gareth Ward sentenced to almost six years in prison for sexually abusing two men Ward appeared via video link from Cessnock prison, having resigned as the member for Kiama in early AugustFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastFormer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-shorts-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10349,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10348\/revisions\/10349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}