Prison officer assault over halal meal earns terror plotter a longer sentence

(AAP) A Queensland man jailed for plotting a terror attack has had his prison term extended over the assault of a prison officer in a disturbance sparked by a halal meal.

Agim Kruezi, 26, didn’t commit the assault.

But he pleaded guilty in Brisbane District Court to unlawful assembly after his fellow inmate Kane Alan Smith seriously assaulted the officer in a dispute over whether his meal was halal.

Kruezi, who last year admitted preparing for incursion into a foreign state and preparing or planning for a terrorist act, was on remand for those charges when he committed the offence.

The pair were sitting together when Smith threw the meal on the ground and said, “f*** this shit.”

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