New Lynn attack: Laws not fit for purpose - expert - a podcast by RNZ

Cabinet Ministers will today consider law changes following Friday's terror attack.
Ahamed Aathill Mohamed Samsudeen was shot dead by police on Friday after stabbing six people inside Countdown LynnMall - a seventh person was also injured.
Three people remain in a critical but stable condition in intensive care at Auckland Hospital.
A counter-terrorism expert says authorities should be given greater powers to keep those planning terror attacks away from the public, without the need to prosecute them of a crime.
Massey University's Dr John Battersby told political reporter Charlie Dreaver the current laws aren't fit for purpose and the current legislation going through Parliament doesn't go far enough.

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