The Am Show sports host Mark Richardson (right, with co-hosts Amanda Gillies and Duncan Garner) has taken a hard line on meth cooks.

New comments from The AM Show's Mark Richardson make it seem more likely he will be the new controversial character in post-Paul Henry morning television.

The sports presenter on Duncan Garner's The AM Show isn't playing around when it comes to New Zealand's "war on drugs", saying meth cooks should be "shot in the back of the head".

His no-holds-barred comments were made on Monday morning as Richardson and co-presenters Garner and Amanda Gillies discussed a report regarding New Zealand's increasing meth problem.

"If you're going to call it a war, then change rules and make it like a war," Richardson said, clarifying to Garner, "I'm saying find the cooks, pull them out and shoot them in the back of the head, thats what you do in a war."

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The former The Crowd Goes Wild host went on to say that his war on drugs would look more like controversial Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte's, in which about 7600 people have been killed since he launched his war on drugs seven months ago.

"My war looks like carnage, it looks like blood on the ground, getting rid of the filth that is creating this," Richardson added.



"They're the enemy and I have no tolerance for them."

Garner seemed shocked by Richardson's opinions and called for comments from the public.

