New Zealand deputy PM Winston Peters says Christchurch terrorist should be jailed in Australia

Scott Morrison had earlier downplayed the prospect of the gunman being put into the Australian prison system.

New Zealand's Deputy PM and Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters Source: AAP

New Zealand's deputy prime minister says the Christchurch mosque terrorist should be returned to Australia to serve life in prison. 

"Now is the time for Australia's Minister of Home Affairs, Peter Dutton, to receive and carry out the terrorist's sentence in Australia," Winston Peters said on Thursday.

"The Islamic community and all of New Zealand has already suffered enough without having to pay astronomical prison costs to keep him safe in our prison system."

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