Conspiracy-theory spreading website Counterspin said, "we can confirm that Richard Prosser has left us after a long battle with depression". "He has two little girls," ex-NZ First MP Tracey Martin told the NZ Herald. Prosser was in Parliament from 2011 to 2017 and represented NZ First as a list MP in Waimakariri. In 2013, Prosser came under fire after it emerged he'd written an anti-Muslim column for Investigative magazine. Prosser also said all young men who look Muslim should be banned from flying.

Source: New Zealand Herald June 12, 2022 00:05 UTC