SYDNEY, Australia — Brenton Tarrant doctored triggers to make his weapons fire faster and be more lethal. And after murdering 51 Muslims during Friday Prayer at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, last year, he told the police he wished he had killed even more. He is the first criminal in New Zealand ever sentenced to life in prison with no eligibility for release — the country’s most severe punishment. “If he still has any human feeling, he will die in guilt and remorse,” said Gamal Fouda, the imam of Al Noor mosque, where Mr. Tarrant killed 44 people. “I think he will die out of loneliness, thinking about what he did to us and his mother, his grandmother, his family.”

Source: New York Times August 27, 2020 02:01 UTC