NSW MP Gareth Ward pleads not guilty to rape and indecent assault with election result in balance

Police allege Ward indecently assaulted a 17-year-old boy in 2013 and raped a 27-year-old man in 2015

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The New South Wales MP and former state Liberal minister Gareth Ward has pleaded not guilty to alleged sexual offences against a teenage boy and a man.

Police allege that Ward indecently assaulted a 17-year-old boy at Meroo Meadow on NSW’s south coast in February 2013 and that he raped a 27-year-old man in Sydney in September 2015.

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