(NCA NewsWire) Australia’s first convicted terrorist has disavowed his previously deeply held extremist views and admits he misunderstood his religion as he appeals against a decision to deny him parole.
Faheem Khalid Lodhi confessed to breaking an “unspoken agreement” with the community in a handwritten letter to the attorney-general, who his lawyers say made an “unreasonable decision” to reject his latest bid for release.
Lodhi has served 16 of his 20-year sentence after being convicted in 2006 of a plot targeting the nation’s energy grid and military bases under federal terrorism laws passed three years earlier.
The Pakistan-born former Lakemba architect’s 15-year non-parole period has now expired.
