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Former NSW families minister Gareth Ward will spend at least the next three years and nine months in jail for raping a political staffer and indecently assaulting an 18-year-old man, both of whom he met through his position of power, in crimes a judge described as “deliberate and predatory”.
The 44-year-old had been in custody since he was convicted in July of the sexual crimes committed at his Shoalhaven home on the South Coast in 2013 and in his Potts Point apartment in 2015.
As Ward learnt his punishment, he was seen on the audiovisual link bowing his head. Outside court, Ward’s solicitor Steven Burns said his client would appeal against the convictions.