(Radio NZ) Government agencies which battled to detain and deport the LynnMall attacker Ahamed Samsudeen are remaining silent on why they did not agree to his request to lose New Zealand residence.
Officials were moving to cancel Samsudeen’s refugee status and detain him as a security risk, but discovered it was unlikely they could do so — or deport him.
But meanwhile Samsudeen, who claimed asylum a decade ago, asked to have his permanent residence revoked in 2018 and immigration officials twice visited him to discuss it.
Samsudeen was fatally shot in September last year by undercover police who were following him, after he stabbed shoppers at the Auckland Countdown supermarket in LynnMall.
