27 Aug 2020

Christchurch mosque attacker will 'breathe last breath' in prison

From Checkpoint, 5:08 pm on 27 August 2020

Warning: Report contains details that will distress some listeners.

'New Zealand's worst murderer' will spend the rest of his life in prison - with no possibility of ever getting out.

Brenton Tarrant has been handed the harshest possible sentence - and a first in New Zealand.

For his many victims, it was what they wanted, and have waited 18 months for, since that day last March when their lives were changed forever.

Outside court there were cheers and applause - joy, and relief.

Checkpoint reporter Logan Church has been at the High Court in Christchurch.