Sydney terrorism: Man convicted of plotting Bankstown knife attack dragged into courtroom A Sydney man arrested as a schoolboy over a shocking terrorist plot has been carried into court headfirst, proclaiming 'I don’t want to be here.'

(NCA NewsWire) A teen terrorist who plotted to execute a bloody attack in western Sydney has been dragged headfirst into court after barricading himself in his prison cell with a mattress, telling a judge he refused to take part in his “false trial.”

Known as AB, he was one of two 16-year-old boys police swooped on at a Bankstown prayer hall after undercover cops watched them buy two knives from a nearby gun shop in October 2016.

One of the teens told the shop owner he needed the M9 bayonets to go “pig hunting.”

By pigs they meant police, as the boys planned to act on an Islamic State call to arms urging followers to “kill disbelievers on the streets of Brunswick, Broadmeadows, Bankstown, and Bondi.”

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