The nearly 800-page report is the result of an extensive inquiry into the March 2019 mosque attacks in which 51 people were killed
Before the sentencing, Janna Ezat, whose son Hussein Al-Umari was one of 51 people killed in the terrorist attack, came face-to-face with the gunman in court, and told him she forgave him.
“I have decided to forgive you, Mr Tarrant, because I don’t have hate, I don’t have revenge,” she said during victim statements. “The damage is done. Hussein will never be here. I have only one choice: to forgive you.”
In August this year, the 29-year-old gunman was sentenced to life in prison, in the first time under current New Zealand law that a sentence of life without the possibility of parole was imposed.
When given the chance to oppose the sentence in court, he chose not to.
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