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Trail of escaped New Zealand killer leads to Brazil
By radionz.co.nz
Published: 11/11/2014

New Zealand police have confirmed fugitive murderer Phillip John Smith flew from Chile to Brazil but cannot say whether he is still there.

Smith was on 72-hour release from Spring Hill prison in Waikato last week when he absconded and flew out of Auckland on a direct flight to Chile. This morning it was revealed he went on to Brazil.

Smith was jailed in 1996 for murder, aggravated robbery, sexual violation, indecent assault on a boy and kidnapping.

He had stabbed to death a man in Wellington whose son he had been sexually abusing. Earlier, he had tracked the family from the Wairarapa, where he was facing sex charges, to the Wellington suburb of Johnsonville where they were living in a supposedly safe house.

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