Sevdet Besim handed 10-year jail term for Anzac Day terror plot
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A Melbourne teenager who plotted to behead a police officer in an Anzac Day terror attack will spend at least seven and a half years in prison.
Sevdet Ramadan Besim, now 19, pleaded guilty to a single terror-related charge over his 2015 plan to run down an officer and behead him in a rampage that would ultimately end in the teenager’s own death.
Besim was handed a 10-year jail sentence in the Victorian supreme court on Monday and must serve at least seven and a half before he is eligible for parole.
Justice Michael Croucher said Besim’s planned “putrid act” was aimed at advancing violent jihad, intimidating the government and striking fear into hearts of the wider community.
The murder plot would also terrify every law enforcement officer in the country and their loved ones, he said.
“To the vast majority of the community, it’s unfathomable an 18-year-old boy planned to kill a law enforcement officer, to crash into him with a car and then behead him with a knife,” Croucher said.
Besim chose Anzac Day to “make sure the dogs remember this as well as there fallen heros [sic]”.
He said he was “ready to fight these dogs on there [sic] doorstep”.
“I’d love to take out some cops,” Besim said in online chats with a UK teenager, where he discussed his deadly ideas. “I was gonna meet with them then take some heads ahaha.”
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for people who don't know what anzac day is; on every 25 april, australia and NZ commemorate every australian and new zealander who served and died in war/operational service. it's essentially the AUS/NZ version of rememberance day, memorial day, the like…
anyway, good. scum for planning that
He can get longer as far as I'm concerned
glad he flopped 