New Zealand to hear Christchurch mosque shooter's appeal against sentence
Brenton Tarrant seeks to vacate March 2020 guilty pleas claiming harsh prison conditions impaired his rationality; the appeal challenges New Zealand's first life-without-parole sentence.
- Brenton Tarrant, an Australian serving a life sentence without parole for the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings that killed 51, is seeking to overturn his guilty plea.
- The mosque attacks, parts of which were livestreamed, prompted New Zealand to pass stricter gun laws and a buyback scheme for certain firearms.
- A survivor says Tarrant likely wants 'his limelight and to be relevant again' by reopening trauma, but vows not to let him succeed.
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Christchurch terrorist seeks to overturn 2019 mass shooting conviction
An Australian white supremacist who killed 51 Muslim worshippers in New Zealand's deadliest mass shooting in 2019 has told an appeals court he wasn't thinking rationally when he pleaded guilty. The 35-year-old man is seeking to overturn his conviction and is asking for a trial or leave to appeal if one is refused. He's currently serving a life sentence without parole for the attacks at Al Noor mosque and Linwood Islamic Centre in Christchurch. V…
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