- Brenton Tarrant, the white supremacist who killed 51 Muslim followers at the Christchurch mosque, is considering appealing his sentence.
- Last year, Tarrant was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for murdering 51 people and attempting to murder 40 people.
- In the worst mass shooting in New Zealand’s history, Tarrant stormed into two mosques and opened fire on Muslims who had gathered for prayer on Friday.
Wellington – The man who killed 51 Muslim believers at the Christchurch mosque is considering appealing his life sentence. His lawyer told National Radio on Monday that he pleaded guilty under duress after the 2019 attack .
Brenton Tarrant, a 31-year-old white supremacist, was sentenced to life imprisonment last year for murdering 51 people and attempting to murder 40 others in two mosques in Christchurch on March 15, 2019. Parole, this is the worst mass shooting in the country’s history.
This is the first time a New Zealand court has sentenced a person to life imprisonment.
Tarrant’s lawyer Tony Ellis told Radio New Zealand that his client told him that he pleaded guilty last year because he had experienced “inhuman and degrading treatment” while awaiting trial.
Ellis has only recently taken over as Tarrant’s lawyer and filed a claim on behalf of his client in a memorandum to the Coroner Court, which has dealt with all aspects of the Christchurch attack and whether due process has been followed. survey.
Ellis said:
He said that because of the treatment he received during and after the trial, [that affected] His willingness to persevere, he decided that the easiest way was to confess his guilt.
“In this way, what he meant was that he received inhuman or degrading treatment during his remand, which hindered a fair trial.”
Ellis said that he had advised his client to appeal his life imprisonment without parole because it was a so-called “no hope sentence” and violated the “Bill of Rights” and he is considering doing so.
When asked for comment, Ellis told Reuters via email that his client instructed him to speak only with selected domestic media.
Tarrant, an Australian national, rushed into two mosques in Christchurch with a military semi-automatic device, indiscriminately shot Muslims who had gathered for Friday prayers, and used head-mounted cameras to broadcast the killing.
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