The 15 year old boy who incited an Australian man to attempt an Islamic State-driven terrorist attack in Melbourne on ANZAC Day this year, has been sentenced to life in the UK.
The Blackburn teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was only 14 years of age when he communicated with Australian man Abu Khaled al-Cambodi about the potential act of terrorism.
Allegedly, the British boy came into contact with Al-Cambodi via the ‘Jihadi Twitter community’, in which Al-Cambodi had thousands of followers. Al-Cambodi, according to the ABC, began the conversation by saying “I am the brother from Australia.”
According to a security official who appeared on ABC’s The 7:30 Report earlier in the year, the plot involved running a police officer over and killing him with a knife.
The men then planned to take the officer’s gun and go on a homicidal (and likely suicidal) shooting rampage.
The British teenager pleaded guilty to one count of ‘inciting another person to carry out an attack’, and has now been given a life sentence. He is the youngest British person to be charged with terrorism offences.
via ABC.
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