Alexander Gillespie: Law professor on New Zealand's first sabotage conviction - Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive

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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