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Families of victims gunned down at two New Zealand mosques have urged a judge to impose the toughest possible sentence on the gunman.
White supremacist Brenton Tarrant showed no remorse and appeared to smirk at one survivor during a sentencing hearing on Tuesday.
A murder conviction carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison. The judge can impose a life term without parole, a sentence that has never been used in New Zealand.
Mirwais Waziri, who was wounded during the 2019 attack at Christchurch's Al Noor mosque, put aside his prepared court statement and addressed Tarrant directly, after seeing that he did not have "any regrets, any shame in his eyes".
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