14 Dec 2022

Response to suspected terrorist missed deradicalisation opportunities

From Midday Report, 12:11 pm on 14 December 2022

Police, prisons and spy agencies missed chances to direct the LynnMall terror attacker away from violent extremism.

That is among the 'significant deficiencies' found in a weighty review out today into the handling of Ahamed Samsudeen, a refugee who was locked up awaiting trial for about four years before injuring eight people in a stabbing frenzy in a supermarket in September last year shortly after his release from prison.

He was then shot dead by the nearby surveillance team which followed him 24/7. 

RNZ reporter Phil Pennington spoke to Māni Dunlop.