Witnesses reported hearing 50 shots from his weapons including a semi-automatic shotgun and a rifle at Al Noor Mosque in Christchurch on the country's South Island (Pictured)
'I know he's been to lots of different countries trying to experience lots of different things in life and I would say something's happened in that time in his travels.' 'I would say it's something in the nature of his travels, something he's been around. He has been travelling overseas, anywhere and everywhere.
'But I know he's been travelling since he left Grafton. 'From the conversations we had about life he didn't strike me as someone who had any interest in that or extremist views,' she said. The woman said she had not spoken to him or heard him talk about his political or religious beliefs. 'He was in the gym for long periods of time, lifting heaving weights. 'When I say he was dedicated, he was dedicated more than most people would be. 'He threw himself into his own personal training and then qualified as a trainer and trained others. 'He was very dedicated to his own training and to training others,' she said. Tarrant attended a local high school and then worked as a personal trainer at the local Big River Squash and Fitness Centre from 2010.Ī woman who knew Tarrant through the gym said he had always followed a strict dietary and exercise regime. Tarrant's father, who was a competitive athlete and completed 75 triathlons, died of cancer in 2010 aged just 49. The judge however ruled that even though there was sufficient evidence for a prosecution there was no public interest in proceeding on those charges.Brenton Tarrant, 28, grew up in Grafton, a small town in northern New South Wales.
Nugent pleaded not guilty to two counts of encouraging terrorism. He pleaded guilty to five counts of dissemination of terrorist publications and 11 counts of possession of a document containing information likely to be useful to a person preparing or committing an act of terrorism. A further six charges were subsequently added. Nugent was arrested on 19 August 2020 and initially charged with 12 Terrorism Act offences. He also shared footage of the attack in Christchurch on the one-year anniversary of the atrocity in March last year and posted the manifesto of the perpetrator of the attack. A judge at Kingston crown court jailed him for three-and-a-half years.Ī Metropolitan police commander, Richard Smith, said: “Nugent freely shared his abhorrent extremist views with others over a messaging app, and he passed on manuals detailing how to produce deadly weapons and explosive devices.”
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