Gareth Ward, a former Liberal Party minister turned independent, said he had come to parliament in the early hours of July 21 after locking himself out of his apartment.
NSW MP Gareth Ward has denied being drunk when he showed up at Parliament House at 4am on a Sunday morning in July, saying he had locked himself out of his apartment in the early hours of the morning and had come to the building to get a spare pair of keys.reported on the existence of a parliamentary security report which alleged Ward, the independent Kiama MP, had arrived at parliament early on July 21 wearing a “T-shirt, underwear and socks” and had a gash on his head.
But Ward, who will next year face court over a series of alleged sexual abuse offences dating back several years, insists that he was not drunk, and said the characterisation of his state of undress was not correct. “Having been awoken and responding to a noise at the rear of my apartment, I locked myself out of my property in the early hours of 21 July,” he said in a statement.
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