(Age) A “soldier of Islamic State” jailed for 42 years for a frenzied stabbing attack faces more jail time after she attacked a Canadian fellow inmate with garden shears in the hope of generating international headlines.
Momena Shoma was less than three years into her term at Melbourne’s Dame Phyllis Frost prison when, on October 30 last year, she pounced on an unattended pair of shears. Later that day she tried to stab an inmate in the neck. But the Supreme Court heard on Wednesday, the victim saw the shears, raised her arms, ducked out of the way and suffered a cut thumb.
Shoma, 28, was jailed in 2019 for stabbing Roger Singaravelu in the neck in his Mill Park home in February 2018, and must serve 31 years before being elligible for parole.
