He murdered 51 people that day, and at the end of a four-day hearing, he became the first person in New Zealand to be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. “I could not sleep after the shooting, I cried a lot.”Despite the sentence, the strictest possible under New Zealand law, Fouda said the loss inflicted by Tarrant was irreversible. Abdul Aziz, who chased the gunman from the Linwood mosque, said the sentence was “what he deserved to get and what we deserved to get. ‘It doesn’t bring back our son’Hazim Al-Umari, father of 35-year-old Hussein who was shot dead while trying to protect others, said the life sentence was what he wanted. New Zealand police commission Andrew Coster, meanwhile, said was “very satisfied” with the outcome.

Source: Manila Times August 27, 2020 07:18 UTC