New Zealand mosque shooter Brenton Tarrant's cousin says he deserves the death penalty for what he's done
Donna Cox, who grew up with Tarrant in Grafton, New South Wales, also said her cousin most probably embraced his extremist views during his travels to various countries
The family of 28-year-old Brenton Tarrant, the Australian white supremacist who gunned down 50 people at the Al-Noor and Linwood Mosques on Friday, March 15, is beginning to speak out, with one of his cousins suggesting he deserved the death penalty for the crime.
According to Yahoo News, Donna Cox, who grew up with Tarrant in the riverside town of Grafton in northern New South Wales, claimed there was nothing in his upbringing which could have influenced him to carry out such a horrific attack. "I hurt more for his mother, his sister, because he was never raised like that, in that sort of environment, you know?" she said. "There was no violence. No family’s perfect, but certainly nothing like that. Definitely not."