The Christchurch mosque terrorist has failed to overturn his convictions for the March 2019 mass shooting, with a court ruling his appeal bid was “utterly devoid of merit”.⁠ ⁠ A judgment released on Thursday said the terrorist failed to demonstrate that prison conditions caused a decline in his mental health to the extent that he was “irrational” when he entered his guilty pleas.⁠ ⁠ It was delivered nearly three months after a hearing at the Court of Appeal in Wellington. Over that five-day hear