By Simon Mercep, 1News Reporter
22 mins ago

Former ACT Party president Tim Jago's appeal against his convictions and sentence for historical abuse of two teenage boys will be heard in June.


Last year a jury convicted Jago of indecently assaulting the teenagers he
knew through an Auckland surf lifesaving club in the 1990s.


He was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in jail. He gave up his battle for name suppression in January this year.


Jago's lawyer today confirmed the appeal would go ahead in June at a Court of Appeal hearing in Auckland.


The appeal is made on the grounds of a miscarriage of justice.


It claims "the jury reached an unreasonable verdict", and that the judge's summing up was "unbalanced and incomplete".

It also says the sentence was "excessive" and that home detention was clearly the appropriate sentence.


The abuse occurred before his involvement with the ACT Party.

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