He faces being the first person in New Zealand, under current laws, to receive a term of life without parole. It was the only response Tarrant offered any of his victims in a hearing that is due to decide whether the perpetrator of New Zealand’s worst peacetime massacre will ever leave jail. Later, Ezat’s daughter told the Guardian her mother had believed the gunman, in that moment, had felt something. Ezat’s hand shook as she lifted a cup of water to her mouth. “I have only one choice: to forgive you,” Ezat said, looking straight at the gunman. But at Ezat’s words, he appeared for the first time to show a response, blinking rapidly as she spoke directly to him. He often listened intently and returned eye contact when bereaved relatives or survivors offered it. Tarrant, pale and thin, was in court on Monday. He had broadcast his attacks live on Facebook, posted a racist manifesto online, and often smirked throughout his earlier court appearances – at which he had appeared on a video screen from jail. Hussein Al-Umari, 35, died at Al Noor mosque on 15 March 2019.īrenton Tarrant, 29, the self-professed white supremacist who gunned down Al-Umari and dozens of others, had sat – blank and impassive – in the dock as family after family had told a court due to sentence the gunman this week of the scale of their loss and grief.
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