THE Christchurch mosque mass murderer is appealing against his conviction and sentence, New Zealand’s Court of Appeal confirmed today.

Brenton Tarrant is serving a life sentence without possibility of parole, the first ever handed down in New Zealand, for the March 2019 gun massacre which killed 51 people and wounded 40 others in two consecutive attacks on mosques during Friday prayers in the city on South Island.

The white supremacist sent a neonazi manifesto adorned with far-right symbols like the “black sun” wheel to politicians minutes before he began the killing spree.

Survivor Temel Atacocugu, who lived despite being shot nine times during the attack on the al-Noor mosque, said: “I would like to tell him: ‘Grow up, be a man and die quietly in jail because that is what you deserve’.”

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said: “His is a name that should not be repeated and I am going to apply that same rule in commenting on his attempts to revictimise people.”