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'501' Australian deportee: 'I just thought they are not going to tear a mother away from her children'

Elizabeth Binning
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Senior Journalist·NZ Herald·
10 mins to read

When Taryn O'Dowd boarded a flight to New Zealand it was a one-way trip.

Her fellow passengers included a man who tried to buy a 14-year-old girl for sex, a man who spent 20 years on the run after choking his girlfriend to death and another man who killed his girlfriend's parents before burying them next to the swimming pool.

Cold-blooded murderers, child abusers, "scum of the earth", "trash", "worst of the worst" - those on board the unmarked Airbus

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