Christmas Day terror plotter Ahmed Mohamed has sentence cut in ‘most unusual appeal’ A man who helped plot a Christmas Day terror attack to behead people in Melbourne and firebombed a mosque had a major win in court.

July 13, 2022   

(NCA NewsWire) A man who firebombed a mosque and then weeks later was plotting to behead civilians on Christmas Day at an iconic Melbourne location has had his jail time cut.

Ahmed Mohamed was found guilty of conspiring “in preparation for a terrorist act” after he along with three others plotted to behead people and set off bombs at Federation Square on Christmas Day in 2016.

He was also found guilty over his role in a firebomb attack on a Shia mosque on December 11 that same year.

Mohamed was jailed for 26 years for the Christmas Day terror plot and 22 years for his role in razing the mosque.

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