‘How much more of this s**t did you think we would take?’: Opening to vile massacre video

Graphic footage of the Christchurch mosque massacre will be played to a Brisbane court as a man stands trial accused of sharing links to the vile livestream.

Graphic footage of the Christchurch mosque massacre, allegedly shared by a Brisbane man to multiple contacts, will be played to a Queensland court.

The court heard the video, found in messages on Simon John Hickey’s phone, opens with the title card ‘How much more of this sh*t did you think we would take?’ before cutting to the shocking footage of gunman Brenton Tarrant’s live-streamed attack.

Images depicting various global terrorist attacks are in the first few seconds of the video.

Mr Hickey is accused of using the encrypted messaging app Signal to send links of the footage to five contacts in March 2019 – just weeks after the attack.

Simon John Hickey outside the District Court in Brisbane, where he is on trial for allegedly sharing the video of the Christchurch massacre.

He has pleaded not guilty to five charges of using a carriage service in a way that reasonable persons would regard as being offensive.

The rest of the video was due to be played to the jury on Tuesday but proceedings were adjourned due to the file being too long to play through the afternoon.

Crown prosecutor Daniel Whitmore told the court the video included “various images, texts and sound effects” that had been added by Mr Hickey.

Confronting footage of Tarrant’s attack on the Al Noor mosque (pictured) was due to be played to the jury on Tuesday.

“The prosecution’s case is that the defendant’s use of a carriage service in sending those links to that video, in each case, would be regarded by reasonable persons as being offensive,” Mr Whitmore said.

Investigative computer analyst Marc Dunn gave evidence on Tuesday that he was present while Mr Hickey’s home was searched in April 2019.

He said he reviewed Mr Hickey’s phone and found Signal messages containing links to the video.

He told the court the video’s filename was ‘Ebba’s Revenge’.

Mr Dunn said the file showed “graphic material” and some audio sounds did not appear to originate from the video itself.

Simon John Hickey (pictured) is alleged to have sent links to the video to multiple contacts on Signal in 2019. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Tertius Pickard

The crown alleges Mr Hickey sent multiple messages to the Signal contacts along with links to the video.

In some, he allegedly said watching it was “fun for the whole family” and he thought “it should be on TV”.

Another message allegedly outlined how he took parts of the original video and turned it into a game so “everyone can enjoy killing kebabs”.

Australian white supremacist Brenton Tarrant (pictured) was jailed for life over the 2019 Christchurch shooting, which claimed the lives of 51 Muslim worshippers.

The jury has been asked to decide if a reasonable person would have regarded the content shared over Signal as offensive and if Hickey was reckless to that fact.

The trial continues.