(Age) A young woman who stabbed a Melbourne man in the name of the Islamic State has lifted her niqab veil in court to plead guilty to intentionally engaging in a terrorist act.
Momena Shoma, 25, refused to stand in the dock when Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth Hollingworth entered the court on Thursday, but lifted her facial covering when the judge asked to confirm her identity.
Shoma then pleaded guilty to engaging in a terrorist act, after she stabbed Roger Singaravelu on February 9, as he napped next to his five-year-old daughter in the rumpus room of his Mill Park home.
Mr Singaravelu woke when he felt piercing pain in his neck and was able to wrestle the kitchen knife off Shoma, before he dashed out of the room with his daughter and got help in the street.
