Brendan Tarrant grew up in Grafton and worked as a personal trainer before leaving the rural NSW town to travel the world.
"He started coming to my facility as a boy that was finishing school and showed a lot of dedication to his own training. Then he went and did his personal training qualifications," she said.
"He left here to go travelling and as far as I knew he was travelling to sort of see as much of the world as possible," she said. "The origins of my language is European, my culture is European, my political beliefs are European, my philosophical beliefs are European, my identity is European and, most importantly, my blood is European," he wrote.
The manifesto covered topics from taxation to white birthrates, envisaging the fall of mosques in what was one Constantinople in Turkey, while also including the Dylan Thomas poemOn Friday, Mr Tarrant allegedly entered two central Christchurch mosques and opened fire, killing 41 people at Masjid Al Noor in Deans Ave at 1.40pm local time, and seven at Linwood Masjid.
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