NZ family in expelled group

A New Zealand family are among about 17 foreigners expelled from Morocco for trying to convert children in a home they ran to Christianity.

Chris Broadbent, 35, his wife Tina, 33, and their two sons, William, 2, and Samuel, 1, were yesterday escorted by police in a bus convoy to the port city of Tangiers to await deportation to Spain.

Mr Broadbent grew up in Dunedin, but was working in Auckland when he decided to take two years out to do volunteer service, his father, Dr Roland Broadbent said.

He had been the human relations manager of the Village of Hope, which provides foster care for abandoned infants and children in the Moroccan Middle Atlas region, for 18 months.

Last night, the family was in Tangier waiting for a boat to Spain.