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Woman in centre of Northland lockdown debacle 'very discouraged' by lack of apology

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Publish Date
Wed, 7 Sep 2022, 2:12pm
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Woman in centre of Northland lockdown debacle 'very discouraged' by lack of apology

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Wed, 7 Sep 2022, 2:12pm

New documents released under the Official Information Act have revealed the truth about the highly publicised case of three women who travelled from Auckland to Northland in October 2021 in the midst of a Delta outbreak, putting Northland into an alert level 3 lockdown.

The OIA papers show the women - who had earlier been blamed for using "false information" to get travel permits - had no links to gangs and weren't sex workers, as had been suggested, and their permit had been approved in error.

NZ Herald crime and justice senior journalist Anna Leask spoke to one of the women involved not long after the incident and joined Simon Barnett and James Daniels Afternoons.

Leask said he woman told her she was “very discouraged” after Hipkins refused to apologise and after the new information was revealed today she “felt little relief”.

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