Christchurch terror appeal: why now, and what is really being decided?
Hagen Hopkins Getty Images The New Zealand Court of Appeal is this week hearing a case that is unusual in a number of respects. The person bringing it is Brenton Harrison Tarrant, the 35 year old Australian man convicted and sentenced for the murder of 51 people in Christchurch in March 2019. Tarrant – who earlier pleaded guilty to those murders, along with attempting to murder 40 others and committing the acts as terrorism – is seeking to reopen his conviction and sentence
Hagen Hopkins Getty Images The New Zealand Court of Appeal is this week hearing a case that is unusual in a number of respects. The person bringing it is Brenton Harrison Tarrant, the 35 year old Australian man convicted and sentenced for the murder of 51 people in Christchurch in March 2019. Tarrant – who earlier pleaded guilty to those murders, along with attempting to murder 40 others and committing the acts as terrorism – is seeking to reopen his conviction and sentence
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