An officer & a gentleman ‘MATT WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN’
On a quiet Friday afternoon last year, Diane Hunt was happily prepping dinner for her son Matthew Hunt, a young constable with the New Zealand Police, who’d planned to visit after his shift.
She’d bought fresh ingredients to make his favourite salmon and pasta, before sitting down to enjoy a cup of tea and read the news. But the 28-year-old never arrived. During a routine traffic stop in Massey, West Auckland, Matt was shot and killed.
“I was looking at a news website when that red line came across the top and it said two police had been shot in Massey. I thought, ‘Well, Matthew doesn’t work in Massey. He told me he was working on the Auckland Harbour Bridge,’” recalls Diane, 63, sharing her heartbreaking story exclusively with the Weekly. “I thought, ‘How awful because Matthew will know who they are.’ Then it said one of them was dead, so
