Waikato’s Michael Loye caught with child-sex exploitation images weeks after prison release

Open Justice multimedia journalist, Waikato·NZ Herald·28 Aug, 2026 03:00 AM3 mins to read‌Michael John Loye, 36, was jailed for 25 months when he appeared for sentencing in the Hamilton District Court this week on three representative charges of possession of objectionable material.A man less than three weeks out of jail was busted with more child exploitation material after police were alerted to activity on his Dropbox account. Michael John Loye was released from prison on March 4 last year. Within weeks, the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) received