Darren Hughes

Darren Colyn Hughes (born 3 April 1978) was a New Zealand Member of Parliament between 2002 and 2011, first elected at the age of 24. He represented the Labour Party and was a Minister outside Cabinet in the Fifth Labour Government of New Zealand. In March 2011 Hughes resigned from Parliament after news of him being investigated by the police became public. A complaint of a sexual nature was laid against him by an 18-year-old male. After a lengthy police investigation, Hughes was not charged. Darren Hughes is the eldest of five children in what he has called "a large extended Catholic family". He attended Coley Street Primary School in Foxton, St Josephs and then Horowhenua College in Levin. While at school Hughes was involved in the...