Auckland's mayor has expressed his frustration that Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was not able to give the public any concrete information about the terrorist who attacked the public with a knife in Lynnmall, New Lynn, this afternoon.
Phil Goff says it's frustrating not all the details of the attacker can be revealed because of court-issued suppression orders.
The man stabbed six innocent shoppers soon after 2pm in the Lynnmall Countdown in West Auckland before being shot dead by police.
Goff says he knew nothing about the man beforehand but added that, from his experience in government, the number of people like this individual being monitored is extremely few.
"What's frustrating for all of us who have just listened to the Prime Minister and the police commissioner is that they were constrained from sharing all of the information that they know about this individual, because of a court order, and I understand that the Prime Minister of all people has to live under the law, and cannot go outside the law," Goff told Radio New Zealand.