10 Nov 2025

Former ACT Party president Tim Jago pleads not guilty to indecent assault

1:46 pm on 10 November 2025
Tim Jago indecently assaulted two teenagers he mentored through a sports club between 1995 and 1999.

Former ACT Party president Tim Jago. Photo: RNZ / Calvin Samuel

Former ACT Party president Tim Jago has pleaded not guilty to indecent assault.

Jago was charged with indecent assault last month relating to an allegation from 1995.

He pleaded not guilty at the North Shore District Court on Monday and elected trial by jury.

He will next appear in December for a case review hearing.

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