The man who committed mass murder inside two Christchurch mosques in 2019 has argued in court that when he pleaded guilty he was not making rational decisions and, for that reason, he should be allowed to defend himself at a trial. That prospect is daunting to families of those lost and survivors who live with the trauma, but this week, the terrorist and his lawyers have been making his case. The court lies right across the road from the Beehive, the executive wing of the country's parliament, from where then-prime minister Jacinda Ardern addressed the nation on the evening of...