25 Aug 2020

Chch mosque shootings: Mother says she weeps every day

From Morning Report, 6:37 am on 25 August 2020

Warning: This story deals with the fall out from the Christchurch mosque shootings, which may be distressing for some.

The mother of Hussein Al-Umari, who died in the Christchurch mosque attack says she weeps every day for her son. Al-Umari, who moved to New Zealand in 1997, died at Masjid Al Noor on 15 March, 2019.

His mother, Janna Ezat read out a victim impact statement at the sentencing of the gunman Brenton Tarrant at the High Court in Christchurch yesterday.

She told the court her life has been affected in many ways since her son's death.

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