The 29-year-old Australian previously admitted to some 92 charges – 51 for murder, 40 for attempted murder and one linked to terrorism – following the 2019 shooting rampage at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. At Tarrant’s sentencing on Thursday, High Court Judge Cameron Mander said the severity of his crimes justified the harsh penalty.
“Your crimes… are so wicked that even if you are detained until you die it will not exhaust the requirements of punishment and denunciation,” the judge said while handing down the sentence.
“As far as I can discern, you are empty of any empathy for your victims”.
The shooter – who livestreamed the act on Facebook and has been widely described as a ‘white supremacist’ in media reports due to an online manifesto penned before the attack – showed little emotion during the ruling, according to DW. He had fired his legal team last month, opting to represent himself, but also waived his right to speak during his sentencing.
Though New Zealand no longer has a death penalty, and until Tarrant’s case no judge had ever sentenced a criminal to life behind bars with no chance for parole, victims’ families urged the judge to issue the harshest punishment possible.
“He deserves not a life imprisonment term of 17, 25 or 30 years, but life imprisonment until his last gasp, his last breath,” Hamimah Tuyan, whose husband Zekeriya succumbed to injuries nearly two months after the shooting, told the court on Wednesday.
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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern issued a statement following the ruling, saying Tarrant’s life sentence “gave me relief, to know that person will never see the light of day.”
“The trauma of March 15 is not easily healed, but today I hope is the last where we have any cause to hear or utter the name of the terrorist behind it,” the PM went on.
His deserves to be a lifetime of complete and utter silence.
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Sacked his legal representatives and opted to remain silent for the last part of his trial. Sounds like he was instructed to keep quiet. Which makes the case of that it was a staged and controlled operation even more likely. If it were indeed a lone gunman attack surely it would have been driven by a passionate hatred of the people he targetted and a desire to keep on letting people know this. But he went quiet and has been since his capture and during his trial. No passionate outbursts from him during the court case no statements of his beliefs throughout. His whole demeanour is very suspicious and I question the lone gunman scenario. I think he had controllers.
The video of the shooting sure looked and sounded fake.
Surely it would be better if he spoke and told The Truth. Lone White Nutter – where have I heard that before?
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