Samoa Police chief defends decision not to charge stow away

Samoa's Commissioner of Police and Prisons has defended its decision not to prosecute a 24-year-old woman who stowed away on Fiji Airways on Boxing Day last year, in an effort to get to Australia.

Auapa'au Logoitino Filipo said it recommends instead the security breaches at the international airport be fixed.

RNZ Pacific reports the commissioner said they only investigate criminal matters and in his view it's a civil matter for failing security at the airport.

The Samoan woman managed to pass through immigration and airport security, got on the Fiji airways aircraft, and hid in the lavatory.

 

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