In Nov. 2014, Key was criticized for making an insensitive joke about Phillip John Smith, an escaped murderer and pedophile. Smith went to prison for stabbing to death the father of a boy he had molested over a three-year period. Smith got out of prison on a temporary release, and fled to Chile, and then to Brazil.
Someone helped Smith obtain a passport under his birth name, Philip John Traynor. There was no record of incarceration or court orders against him under his legal name. Police launched an investigation into how Smith was able to get a passport and money for plane fare while he was incarcerated.
Upon his release from prison, Smith was supposed to stay with a sponsor (one of his two sponsors was a relative of his), but he never arrived, and his sponsors didn't notify the prison until two days later. The corrections office also failed to check into his whereabouts for two days.
"In 1998 a family member of the man Smith killed told a parliamentary justice and law reform select committee that police had found a 'hit list' in the murderer's prison cell.
"'I am apparently No 3 after my nephew,' the relative said at the time. 'I still don't know to today how he knows my surname or where I live.'...
"Smith once complained to the Police Complaints Authority about the police's refusal to give him some exhibits from his trial - he wanted the underpants and photographs of the boy he was abusing.
Smith raped a 10-year-old neighbor, continued the abuse for three years, and after the boy told his parents, Smith broke into their house in the middle of the night and stabbed the boy's father 19 times. Smith had also blackmailed a businessman, threatening to reveal a same-sex affair if the businessman didn't pay him $25,000.
"Smith accumulated 20 convictions since 1991 before he was sentenced for extortion and before being found guilty of murder, aggravated robbery and six sexual offences.
"Among those offences were fraud, possession of a firearm, assault with a blunt instrument, common assault, attempted arson, cultivating cannabis, making a false statement to police, theft and escaping custody."
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zoltan907 ago
In Nov. 2014, Key was criticized for making an insensitive joke about Phillip John Smith, an escaped murderer and pedophile. Smith went to prison for stabbing to death the father of a boy he had molested over a three-year period. Smith got out of prison on a temporary release, and fled to Chile, and then to Brazil.
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Someone helped Smith obtain a passport under his birth name, Philip John Traynor. There was no record of incarceration or court orders against him under his legal name. Police launched an investigation into how Smith was able to get a passport and money for plane fare while he was incarcerated.
http://archive.is/XHntb http://archive.is/TXWio
Upon his release from prison, Smith was supposed to stay with a sponsor (one of his two sponsors was a relative of his), but he never arrived, and his sponsors didn't notify the prison until two days later. The corrections office also failed to check into his whereabouts for two days.
"In 1998 a family member of the man Smith killed told a parliamentary justice and law reform select committee that police had found a 'hit list' in the murderer's prison cell.
"'I am apparently No 3 after my nephew,' the relative said at the time. 'I still don't know to today how he knows my surname or where I live.'...
"Smith once complained to the Police Complaints Authority about the police's refusal to give him some exhibits from his trial - he wanted the underpants and photographs of the boy he was abusing.
http://archive.is/Uo9an
http://archive.is/3Vz4f
http://archive.is/bec86
Smith raped a 10-year-old neighbor, continued the abuse for three years, and after the boy told his parents, Smith broke into their house in the middle of the night and stabbed the boy's father 19 times. Smith had also blackmailed a businessman, threatening to reveal a same-sex affair if the businessman didn't pay him $25,000.
"Smith accumulated 20 convictions since 1991 before he was sentenced for extortion and before being found guilty of murder, aggravated robbery and six sexual offences.
"Among those offences were fraud, possession of a firearm, assault with a blunt instrument, common assault, attempted arson, cultivating cannabis, making a false statement to police, theft and escaping custody."
http://archive.is/xqPr1
Psalm100 ago
The audio of his comment:
https://file2.stuff.co.nz/1415662969/125/10731125.mp4