Saeed Noori, Flinders Street killer driver, ‘did it in the name of Allah’ The man who deliberately drove his mum’s car into pedestrians at Melbourne’s busy Flinders Street intersection told his victims why he did it today.

February 12, 2019   

(AAP) An Islamic State sympathiser who mowed down pedestrians in Melbourne’s Flinders Street, killing an elderly grandfather, said he “did it in the name of Allah,” a court has been told.

Saeed Noori drove his mother’s SUV into 16 pedestrians outside Flinders Street Station on December 21, 2017.

He was arrested by off-duty police officer Francis Adams, who had just alighted a tram near the attack, while Noori said “Allah Akbar.”

One of his victims was 83-year-old Antonios “Anton” Crocaris, who later died from head injuries.

Noori later told homicide squad investigators a “voice within” told him to drive into pedestrians, a Supreme Court of Victoria pre-sentence plea hearing was told on Tuesday.

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