(AAP) Undeterred by a string of recent court failures, a terror cell leader convicted for encouraging a bomb plot targeting the MCG is again fighting for his freedom.
Abdul Nacer Benbrika was the first Australian convicted of leading a terror organisation and was jailed for 15 years in 2009.
He completed his sentence last year but is yet to taste freedom after Victorian Supreme Court Justice Andrew Tinney ordered he remain behind bars until November 2023 because of ongoing fears that he is a risk to the community.
Earlier this year Benbrika challenged the constitutional validity of the decision to keep him behind bars, specifically whether the Commonwealth could give Victoria’s Supreme Court the power to impose the detention order.
