Ahmed Mohamed: Terrorist’s bid for reduced sentence rejected despite ‘deradicalisation’ A convicted terrorist, currently serving a 32-year stint for two plots, has had his bid for freedom rejected.

August 3, 2023   

(NCA NewsWire) A twice-convicted terrorist, who once plotted a Christmas Day attack in Melbourne’s CBD, has had his bid to walk free from prison early rejected.

Ahmed Mohamed, 30, faced the Victorian Court of Appeal on Thursday where a panel of three justices refused an application to reduce his 32-year sentence.

He was convicted in 2019 over one terror attack and a separate terror plot, and initially jailed for a combined sentence of 38 years, which was reduced on appeal last year.

Mohamed, alongside three co-conspirators, was found guilty of plotting to carry out a terrorist act, conspiring to kill police and strangers in Federation Square on Christmas Day in 2016.

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