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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
National
Sam Rigney

Former MP Milton Orkopoulos guilty of child sexual assault, drug charges

Milton Orkopoulos.

Fifteen years after he was found guilty of 28 child sexual assault and drug charges, disgraced former Swansea MP Milton Orkopoulos has been found guilty of 26 more, a jury left with no doubt the 65-year-old had abused his power and preyed on four young boys, providing them with drugs and cash so he could sexually abuse them.

Orkopoulos has spent the last five weeks on trial in Sydney's Downing Centre District Court accused of indecently and sexually assaulting four boys at Belmont, Caves Beach and Swansea between the mid-1990s and early 2000s, including two who attended his electorate office to ask him about building a skate park.

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