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A squad of Head Hunter gang members have enjoyed a round-the-world holiday flying business class, staying in luxurious hotels and visiting ‘bucket list’ tourist attractions. Over the past four weeks, the group have travelled to Cambodia, Dubai, Egypt, Rome, Paris and Greece and like many tourists, posted photographs of their dream destinations on social media. Led by an influential member of the “Northside” faction of the gang’s East chapter in Auckland, the five Head Hunters have filmed themselves riding dune buggies and camels in the desert, brandishing guns and firing rocket launchers on a shooting range, and cruising on a boat in the blue waters of the Mediterranean.
Photographs posted on several Instagram accounts show the gang members sitting in business class, without their shirts on, when leaving New Zealand and then at their first destination, Cambodia, where they visited a memorial for victims of the Khmer Rouge buried in a mass grave..
