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According to the report, appeal hearings for a white supremacist who shot dead 51 people at two New Zealand mosques in 2019 caused immense distress to his victims, a lawyer representing the state said Friday as proceedings wrapped up.
The report stated that Brenton Tarrant, a 35-year-old Australian former gym instructor, admitted carrying out New Zealand’s deadliest modern-day mass shooting before being sentenced to life in jail in August 2020.
The report also stated that the convicted killer argued this week in Wellington’s Court of Appeal that torturous and inhumane detention conditions had made him incapable of making rational decisions when he pleaded guilty, according to a court synopsis of the case.
The report said that as a week of hearings came to a close on Friday, Crown lawyer Madeleine Laracy urged the court to dismiss Tarrant’s case because he had no legal defense to offer at trial and conviction was certain, state broadcaster. She urged the court to give closure to the victims and the wider Muslim community.
The report added that Tarrant is being held in a specialist unit for prisoners of extreme risk at Auckland Prison, seldom interacting with inmates or other people.
On Monday, he gave evidence via video link and said he did not have the “mind frame or mental health required” to give an informed guilty plea in 2020.
Additionally, if the court upholds Tarrant’s conviction, it will also need to consider an appeal against his sentence. His penalty of life imprisonment without parole was the stiffest in New Zealand history.
Families and friends of those killed or wounded in the attacks were invited to watch proceedings in Christchurch remotely by video with a one-hour delay.
Source; The Defense Post
The report stated that Brenton Tarrant, a 35-year-old Australian former gym instructor, admitted carrying out New Zealand’s deadliest modern-day mass shooting before being sentenced to life in jail in August 2020.
The report also stated that the convicted killer argued this week in Wellington’s Court of Appeal that torturous and inhumane detention conditions had made him incapable of making rational decisions when he pleaded guilty, according to a court synopsis of the case.
The report said that as a week of hearings came to a close on Friday, Crown lawyer Madeleine Laracy urged the court to dismiss Tarrant’s case because he had no legal defense to offer at trial and conviction was certain, state broadcaster. She urged the court to give closure to the victims and the wider Muslim community.
The report added that Tarrant is being held in a specialist unit for prisoners of extreme risk at Auckland Prison, seldom interacting with inmates or other people.
On Monday, he gave evidence via video link and said he did not have the “mind frame or mental health required” to give an informed guilty plea in 2020.
Additionally, if the court upholds Tarrant’s conviction, it will also need to consider an appeal against his sentence. His penalty of life imprisonment without parole was the stiffest in New Zealand history.
Families and friends of those killed or wounded in the attacks were invited to watch proceedings in Christchurch remotely by video with a one-hour delay.
Source; The Defense Post
