A man who admitted sexual offending against children was taunted with the words "The dogs are waiting" as he was led away to prison.
The man's trial, scheduled for Napier next week, will now not go ahead after the defendant pleaded guilty to 20 charges on Wednesday.
The man, whose name was suppressed to protect the identities of his two victims, had been on bail awaiting trial but was taken into custody after entering his guilty pleas and being warned that a jail sentence was all but certain.
"The likelihood of imprisonment is overwhelming," Judge Russell Collins told the man when he appeared in the Napier District Court.