(NCA NewsWire) A Sydney man who was jailed for planning to behead a stranger still won’t stand for a judge despite claiming he has renounced his extremist views, a court has heard.
Omarjan Azari refused to stand for Justice Natalie Adams in 2019 when she sentenced him to serve an 18-year prison term after being convicted of two separate terrorism-related plots.
His accomplice in one scheme to send money overseas to IS fighters, Ali al-Talebi, was in 2017 jailed for a maximum of 12 years after being found guilty of attempting to fund the terrorist organisation in 2014.
Both men are appealing their sentences, claiming they played the lesser role, and argue their respective sentences are excessive when compared to the other’s.
