(Radio NZ) The government is looking into whether it will change the law to make it possible to send would-be terrorists, or refugees who have been serious offenders, back to their home countries.
And former justice minister Andrew Little has defended how long it took to draft tighter terrorism legislation despite warnings that people planning a terrorist act were currently engaged in a “lawful activity” because New Zealand had not made such activity unlawful.
Ahamed Samsudeen stabbed shoppers at a Countdown supermarket in the Auckland suburb of New Lynn last September.
Authorities had been trying to detain him while he waited for an appeal hearing against deportation — because of the risk he posed.
