SYDNEY: A white supremacist who killed 51 Muslim worshippers and injured dozens at two mosques in New Zealand will start an attraction listening to towards his sentence on Monday (Feb 9).
Brenton Tarrant, 35, opened hearth on two mosques in Christchurch in March 2019, within the worst mass capturing within the nation’s historical past.
He was convicted of 51 prices of homicide, 40 counts of tried homicide and one cost of committing a terrorist act and is serving a life sentence in jail with out parole.
It was the primary time a New Zealand courtroom had sentenced an individual to jail for the remainder of their life.
Tarrant, an Australian nationwide, launched a racist manifesto shortly earlier than storming the mosques armed with military-style semi-automatics, indiscriminately capturing at Muslims gathered for Friday prayers and livestreaming the killings on Fb utilizing a head-mounted digital camera.
New Zealand’s worst peacetime killing shocked the nation and prompted the federal government to shortly tighten gun legal guidelines.
