Sorrow turns to anger over ‘disgusting’ Australian visa cancellation for New Zealand-born father

‘He’d been living with me and we didn’t know anything’: Leroy Meki suffered mental health issues as the threat of deportation to New Zealand or Samoa hung over his head Photograph: Supplied

Before he killed himself, Leroy Meki told his sister he was sick with stress about the threat of deportation which had hung over his head for more than two years.

The day before her brother died, Claudine says he was turned down for a job due to his uncertain immigration status.