8 Dec 2020

Chch terrorist could only have been stopped by chance

From Lately, 10:18 pm on 8 December 2020

Neither security and intelligence agencies, the police or the Government could have stopped the Christchurch gunman. The Royal Commission into the March 15th attacks says there's nothing specific any public agency could have done with the information and powers they had at the time.  The Commission's report was released today, noting failures by the police and the Security Intelligence Service, prompting a number of top level apologies.

NZ Security Intelligence Service director Rebecca Kitteridge speaks after the release of the final report by the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the terrorist attack on Christchurch mosques on 15 March 2019.

NZ Security Intelligence Service director Rebecca Kitteridge speaks after the release of the final report by the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the terrorist attack on Christchurch mosques on 15 March 2019. Photo: RNZ / Sam Rillstone