I haven't read the link. I don't really want to. Why give these despicable morons oxygen here?

Rikkitic:

 

I haven't read the link. I don't really want to. Why give these despicable morons oxygen here?

 

Because these abject morons are a threat.  You should read the article.  It's not giving them "oxygen" - but exposing something very evil.

More work like that should go on in NZ - exposing neo-nazis for what they are. 

I also have a duty to my own emotional health. I try to remain generally aware of developments in this and other areas, but there is a limit to how much sewage I can swim in.

"Christchurch mosque shooting: [name removed] sacks lawyers, will represent himself at sentencing"

 

The lawyers who were acting for the Christchurch mosque gunman say they are "not disappointed" at being sacked ahead of next month's sentencing.

 

Australian national [name removed], now intends to represent (sic) himself at sentencing on August 24, a date unaffected by today's shock announcement.

 

He had entered guilty pleas to all 51 murder charges at a hastily-arranged High Court hearing in Christchurch on March 26 - the first day of the nationwide Covid-19 alert level 4 lockdown.

 

Along with the murders, the gunman has been convicted on all charges, including 40 counts of attempted murder relating to the two attacks at Masjid Al Noor and Linwood Islamic Centre on March 15 last year - and pleaded guilty to one charge of engaging in a terrorist act laid under the Terrorism Suppression Act 2002.

 

I really hope they won't let him make any speeches. I hope he will be muzzled, shackled, made to listen to the victim impact statements without interruption, and sent without further ceremony to a deep, dark hole where he will spend the rest of his miserable life.

Christ, he's only 29. He could live for many decades behind bars.

Rikkitic:

 

I really hope they won't let him make any speeches. I hope he will be muzzled, shackled, made to listen to the victim impact statements without interruption, and sent without further ceremony to a deep, dark hole where he will spend the rest of his miserable life.

 

I'm more OK with it given that it's sentencing and there will be fewer opportunities to abuse self-representation. 

This report in Stuff from the sentencing in Chch comes with a warning about graphic content.

I couldn't read the whole thing - it was making me feel physically sick.  I hope after this is over I never have to hear his name ever again. 

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/christchurch-shooting/122539299/mosque-gunman-killed-worshippers-as-they-pleaded-for-their-lives

DarthKermit:

 

Christ, he's only 29. He could live for many decades behind bars.

 

Then dump his corpse in an unknown place in the ocean.

Human garbage.

It was my intention to make no mention whatsoever of this today. The victims deserve to have their say. The perp does not.

From a sentencing point of view, this case is actually entirely predictable. He will almost certainly be the first person ever to be sentenced to life without parole or, at least, an extraordinarily long non-parole period. Really I am not sure that society's objectives (i.e. preservation of order, maintenance of justice, and general/specific deterrence) are well served by the massive sideshow of a sentencing exercise of dragging him into court in the current climate. He doesn't give a crap one way or another about the victims or their families and nothing they say will meaningfully change him or the material facts of the case.

dejadeadnz:

 

From a sentencing point of view, this case is actually entirely predictable. He will almost certainly be the first person ever to be sentenced to life without parole or, at least, an extraordinarily long non-parole period. 

 

I've heard other legal experts opine that he won't get the maximum possible sentence, because of his guilty plea.

If only his sentences could be consecutive.

Is anyone seriously entertaining the chance he will leave prison NOT in a box?