2 Dec 2020

Slain officer's mother urges harsher sentences for cop killers

From Checkpoint, 5:47 pm on 2 December 2020

The mother of a slain police officer has begged politicians to introduce harsher punishments for those who murder police.

Diane Hunt's son Matthew Hunt was shot and killed during a routine traffic stop in Auckland in June.

Today she presented a petition to Parliament - signed by nearly 40,000 people - asking for law changes so anyone convicted of murdering an officer gets a mandatory life sentence without parole.

Hamish Cardwell filed this report.