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Duncan Murray

NZ man to be deported for bashing elderly pokie-player

A man who robbed an elderly pokie-player faces deportation to NZ which he left as a five year old. (David Gray/AAP PHOTOS)

A convicted robber who attacked an elderly man for his pokie winnings should be deported to New Zealand despite living in Australia since he was five years old, a court has ruled.

Tyler Pewhairangi, who is now in his late 20s, was sentenced in Wollongong District Court in October 2020 to more than three years in jail for aggravated robbery over the attack.

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