Brenton Tarrant shot dead 51 Muslim worshippers, including children, at two Christchurch mosques in 2019.
Australian white supremacist killer Brenton Tarrant has lost an appeal to overturn his conviction and sentence for shooting dead 51 people at two New Zealand mosques in 2019, court documents show.
New Zealand’s Court of Appeal denied Tarrant’s appeal on Thursday, ruling that his attempt to overturn his guilty plea for the country’s deadliest mass shooting was “utterly devoid of merit”.
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The 35-year-old had admitted to carrying out the mass shooting before being sentenced to life in prison in August 2020.
Tarrant lodged an appeal in…
