The Queen v Brenton Harrison Tarrant | |
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Court | High Court of New Zealand |
Decided | 2020 |
Citation(s) | [2020] NZHC 2192 |
Court membership | |
Judge(s) sitting | Cameron M |
The Queen v Brenton Harrison Tarrant [2020] NZHC 2192 was a New Zealand sentencing case regarding Brenton Tarrant's involvement in the Christchurch mosque shootings after his guilty plea. It culminated in the first-ever life imprisonment without the possibility of parole sentence in New Zealand history.
Sentencing began on 24 August 2020 before Justice Cameron Mander at the Christchurch High Court, [1] and it was televised. [2] Tarrant did not oppose the sentence proposed and declined to address the court. [3] [4] The Crown prosecutors demonstrated to the court how Tarrant had meticulously planned the two shootings and more attacks, [5] [6] while numerous survivors and their relatives gave victim impact statements, which were covered by national and international media. [7] Tarrant was then sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for each of the 51 murders, [8] and life imprisonment for engaging in a terrorist act and 40 attempted murders. [9] The sentence is New Zealand's first terrorism conviction. [10] [11] It was also the first time that life imprisonment without parole, the maximum sentence available in New Zealand, had been imposed. [note 1] Mander said Tarrant's crimes were "so wicked that even if you are detained until you die, it will not exhaust the requirements of punishment and denunciation." [9] [13]
The Queen v Brenton Harrison Tarrant | |
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Court | High Court of New Zealand |
Decided | 2020 |
Citation(s) | [2020] NZHC 2192 |
Court membership | |
Judge(s) sitting | Cameron M |
The Queen v Brenton Harrison Tarrant [2020] NZHC 2192 was a New Zealand sentencing case regarding Brenton Tarrant's involvement in the Christchurch mosque shootings after his guilty plea. It culminated in the first-ever life imprisonment without the possibility of parole sentence in New Zealand history.
Sentencing began on 24 August 2020 before Justice Cameron Mander at the Christchurch High Court, [1] and it was televised. [2] Tarrant did not oppose the sentence proposed and declined to address the court. [3] [4] The Crown prosecutors demonstrated to the court how Tarrant had meticulously planned the two shootings and more attacks, [5] [6] while numerous survivors and their relatives gave victim impact statements, which were covered by national and international media. [7] Tarrant was then sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for each of the 51 murders, [8] and life imprisonment for engaging in a terrorist act and 40 attempted murders. [9] The sentence is New Zealand's first terrorism conviction. [10] [11] It was also the first time that life imprisonment without parole, the maximum sentence available in New Zealand, had been imposed. [note 1] Mander said Tarrant's crimes were "so wicked that even if you are detained until you die, it will not exhaust the requirements of punishment and denunciation." [9] [13]