(AAP) An “unequivocally committed terrorist” who repeatedly stabbed a Sydney stranger in a “violent, ferocious and inhumane attack” after seeing him wearing an American flag t-shirt has been jailed for at least 27 years.
Ihsas Khan had planned to attack Wayne Greenhalgh on September 11, 2016, the 15th anniversary of the World Trade Centre terrorist attack in New York, to gain international recognition.
“In stabbing Mr Greenhalgh, the offender was motivated by an entrenched, immoral and depraved ideology which sought to justify attacking and killing innocent persons in the name of a religious and/or ideological cause,” Justice Geoffrey Bellew said on Wednesday.
The “highly intelligent” former pharmacy student, now 26, used a hunting knife to stab Mr Greenhalgh on the day before the anniversary, taking advantage of seeing him walking alone past Khan’s Minto home.
