‘Your father was a garbageman and you became trash’: New Zealand shooting victims confront Tarrant

Relatives of the victims killed by Brenton Tarrant in New Zealand’s worst mass shooting have pleaded with the judge to make sure he is never freed.

The anger and grief in the courtroom was palpable as family members called the terrorist a “maggot”, “a big fat loser” and a “pathetic human being”.

“Your father was a garbageman and you became trash of society,” Ahad Nabi, the son of one of the victims, said. “He is ashamed of your identity. You deserve to be buried in a landfill.”


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New Zealand is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island and the South Island —and around 600 smaller islands, covering a total area of 268,021 square kilometres.

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