Threatening to kill the PM

Stuff reports:

A Palmerston North man was serious when he spoke of becoming a suicide bomber in order to assassinate the prime minister and his wife in a Lower Hutt steak house, a court has ruled.

Keith William Mabey, 22, was found guilty in Palmerston North District Court yesterday of threatening to kill John Key after explaining his assassination plot to a Corrections Department psychologist. …

“He said John Key was not running the country properly and … was attempting to poison everyone, so he needed to kill him to stop it.”

Mr Colhoun said Mabey told him he had researched bomb-making on the internet and had successfully tested some homemade gun powder and a detonator.

He planned to modify a stab-proof vest with pockets of dynamite.

I wonder if Mabey was also an “undecided” worm panelists for the debate last night 🙂

In May, Police Minister Judith Collins said “serious threats” had been made against Mr Key after it was revealed the Diplomatic Protection Squad had blown its budget by $800,000 in 2009-10.

Labour claimed Mr Key was using a squad entourage to make him look important.

One of the many things they’ll never apologise for.