'He made us stronger': Christchurch shooting victims strike defiant note at sentencing

Ambreen Naeem, whose son and husband were murdered in the mosque attacks, tells Australian terrorist he has failed

At first, Ambreen Naeem's five-year-old son didn't understand what had happened to his father and older brother when they did not return home from Friday prayers.

I had to tell him that his father and Talha were very brave but that they were not coming home," said a statement from Naeem, 45, that was read in the Christchurch high court on Tuesday during the sentencing of Brenton Tarrant, the Australian terrorist who murdered her husband and eldest son and 49 others. I told him that they were in a better place because they had been so good and so brave."