(Radio NZ) Authorities’ designating the LynnMall attacker as a person of national security interest meant “the die had been cast on his future,” a coroner has heard.
The Federation of Islamic Associations of New Zealand was the last group to make its submissions on Wednesday as part of a three-day hearing in Auckland over the death of Ahamed Samsudeen.
The hearing, in front of Coroner Marcus Elliott, was intended to set the scope of the coronial investigation into Samsudeen’s death.
Samsudeen was shot dead by police in 2021 after seriously injuring five people in a stabbing at the LynnMall Countdown in West Auckland.
He had been under active surveillance after being released from prison, on charges of possessing Isis propaganda, just months before.
