Disgraced former MP Gareth Ward has had ‘an enormous fall from grace’, after he was convicted of sexually abusing two young men, a court has been told.

The Kiama MP was taken into custody on remand in July after he was found guilty by a jury of three counts of indecent assault and a fourth count of intercourse without consent.

Nearly two months later, Ward appeared from custody via AVL before Judge Kara Shead SC in Parramatta District Court.

Ward sat in prison greens and took notesthroughout the sentencing submissions.

He was convicted of the assault of two young men – an 18-year-old at Meroo Meadow in 2013 and a 24-year-old man in Potts Point in 2015 – which sparked calls for the independent south coast MP to resign from parliament.

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