A Taupo man has plead guilty to seven counts of sabotage - the first person convicted of the charge in New Zealand.
Open Justice reports IT professional and anti-vax campaigner Graham Philip was initially charged with wilful damage in December - which was upgraded to sabotage charges this year.
Details are suppressed out of fears of copy-cat offending.
Waikato University law professor Alexander Gillespie says it has a lower threshold of proof than a terrorism charge.
He says if other people do similar things, the charge may be re-used.
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