{"id":77201,"date":"2026-04-30T11:57:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T02:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/30\/christchurch-gunman-shooter-mosque-attacker-appeal-fails-ntwnfb"},"modified":"2026-04-30T11:57:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T02:57:59","slug":"christchurch-gunman-fails-in-bid-to-appeal-against-guilty-pleas-in-new-zealand-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=77201","title":{"rendered":"Christchurch gunman fails in bid to appeal against guilty pleas in New Zealand court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian white supremacist who murdered 51 Muslims said poor mental health made him admit to crimes<\/p>\n<p>The Australian white supremacist who murdered 51 Muslim worshippers at two mosques in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/christchurch\">Christchurch<\/a> in 2019 has been prevented from appealing against his guilty pleas, after one of New Zealand\u2019s highest courts said his bid was \u201cutterly devoid of merit\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Brenton Tarrant, who is responsible for the worst mass shooting in New Zealand\u2019s history, asked the court of appeal in February to allow him to appeal against his guilty pleas, claiming harsh prison conditions had affected his mental health and compelled him to admit to the crimes.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/30\/christchurch-gunman-shooter-mosque-attacker-appeal-fails-ntwnfb\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian white supremacist who murdered 51 Muslims said poor mental health made him admit to crimesThe Australian white supremacist who murdered 51 Muslim worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch in 2019 has been prevented from appealing against hi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,214,213,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-christchurch","category-christchurch-shooting","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77202,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77201\/revisions\/77202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}