The identity of a leading entertainment figure sentenced today to home detention for sexual assault-related charges can soon be made public.
A High Court judge ruled name suppression for the man, who was on trial for three months this year, will lapse on December 8.
The man was found guilty by a High Court jury in Rotorua in August of indecent assault by touching a woman’s body under clothing and attempted sexual violation of the same woman.
He was found not guilty of 23 other charges, including serious sexual and drug-related offending involving nine women.
Justice Layne Harvey said during sentencing that the man’s actions were “unjustified” and “unacceptable”.
NZ Herald
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