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In 2020, Tarrant pleaded guilty to 51 charges of murder, 40 charges of attempted murder and one of engaging in a terrorist act for his armed rampage against two mosques in Christchurch on March 15, 2019.

In 2022, Tarrant tried to appeal against his convictions and his sentence of life in prison with no prospect for parole.

To support his appeal bid, he claimed that in the weeks leading up to his guilty pleas he was in a “state of mental breakdown” and that he had been driven into a state of “near insanity” by his treatment in Auckland Prison.

The Court of Appeal rejected his claims about having an irrational state of mind induced by his prison conditions.