How was LynnMall attacker Ahamed Samsudeen radicalised, inquest asks
A coronial inquest is examining the radicalization process of Ahamed Samsudeen, who carried out a 2021 stabbing attack in an Auckland supermarket. The inquiry will investigate whether prison conditions, mental health support, and government agency actions contributed to his path toward violent extremism.
Why it matters
The inquest seeks to determine if systemic failures in the justice and mental health systems could have prevented a terrorist attack.
Just how was the man who stabbed six people in an Auckland supermarket radicalised?
That will be a key question as the next two phases of the Coronial Inquest into the death of Ahamed Samsudeen gets underway.
Samsudeen was shot dead by police in LynnMall after stabbing shoppers at Woolworths supermarket.
He had taken a knife from the store's shelves and stabbed six people. Another person was injured trying to stop him.
Samsudeen's rampage ended after he was shot 12 times by police.
He had been granted refugee status in 2013, was identified by the SIS as a terrorist threat in early 2017, and was under surveillance at the time of the attack on 3 September, 2021.
Opening phase two of the inquest, Coroner Marcus Elliott laid out the road map for the next few weeks, which would also cover phase three.
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