Monday, May 4, 2026

Former NZME exec named after conviction for underage sex offence

Greg Hornblow convicted of sex offences

A former NZME executive Greg Hornblow can now be publicly identified after his name suppression lapsed following a conviction for obtaining commercial sexual services from a person under 18.

Hornblow, previously head of OneRoof, admitted the charge in November 2025 and was later sentenced in the Auckland District Court to 10 months’ home detention and ordered to pay $3000 in emotional harm reparations.

The court heard he met the 14-year-old via Snapchat, presented himself as a “sugar daddy”, and exchanged money, food, and gifts for explicit images before paying her to visit his home, where sexual activity occurred.



Despite his lawyer arguing he believed the girl was 17 and seeking a discharge without conviction, Judge Kathryn Maxwell rejected that claim, finding he knew she was underage and had encouraged her to avoid legal consequences. NZME chief executive Michael Boggs confirmed Hornblow’s employment was terminated.

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    • As socially reprehensive as it’s made out, REALLY this is DNA surviving, without which we wouldn’t be.
      Our code does not care for social feelings.
      Neither does anthropology.
      Neither should anthropological research, however it has to in order for the researchers to keep their jobs.

      • The DNA of a 60 year old is worthless, particularly when it is encoded with deviancy. All it is doing is interrupting the DNA of a young and virile man and putting aged weakness and mental illness in its place.
        Anthropology has many recorded instances of why a culture failed to survive, or survived with low intellect and some very bad habits which ensured cultural stasis. Society has a vested interest in breeding habits. Farmers and owners of bloodstock know better then to put aged DNA into their animals and thus begin the process of ruination of the genome.
        Read up on what happens in New Guinea. Or better still, what happened on Pitcairn Island and the ensuing trial in 2004.
        DNA does care. It cares a lot – but over two or three generations, which is a longer period than most people live to remember.

        • You have no clue about DNA procreation, anthopology and humanoid socialisation.
          For that fact, your comments are worthless to any discussion.

  1. why is this scumbag not rotting in a prison cell, we need far harsher penalties for this kind of crime. Ten moths home detention and a fine he can no doubt easily afford, nothing to even remotely deter him from doing it again.

    • Maybe he didn’t pay his Lodge dues…or ended-up with a black ball at the latest Lodge meeting..!
      Perhaps he offended another ‘Brother’…or maybe even the ‘Most High Worshipful Master’ of the Lodge…!
      Maybe he threatened to go public with events happening ‘behind the scenes’…

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