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New Zealand to hear Christchurch mosque shooter's appeal against sentence
Brenton Tarrant argues mental deterioration from harsh prison conditions impaired his capacity to plead guilty in the 2019 mosque shootings, with 51 victims killed.
- 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 mosque shooter bids to overturn sentence after claiming he was tortured to plead guilty
The Christchurch mosque shooter is set to appeal his sentence after claiming he was tortured to plead guilty.Brenton Tarrant, now 35, killed 51 people in March 2019 in one of the world's deadliest mass shootings.One year later in March 2020, he pleaded guilty to 92 charges, and received a life sentence behind bars without possibility of parole - a rarity in New Zealand.He is now seeking to overturn his conviction, claiming that he entered his pl…
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