Victim support shares final money to mosque shooting families

From Morning Report, 6:12 am on 28 June 2019

Victim Support has announced it is to hand out the last $2.5 million of donated money to the victims of the Christchurch mosque shootings and the families of those who lost their lives.

It comes on top of the $7 million it has already distributed in two previous payments.

This time it has taken a different approach, paying slightly more to the injured depending on whether they were shot or if they sustained more minor injuries.

The bereaved - including widows with small children now having to make do without their main bread winner - have again received the most.

As with the previous payment, witnesses to the horrific events have also been paid, but much less than the bereaved or injured.

Kevin Tso, the CEO of Victim Support told Conan Young that now they've worked out how to distribute all the money they will reflect on what they've learned.