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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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Reuters broke the news in United Kingdom on Sunday, February 8, 2026.
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