(AAP) The detective who led the investigation to bring home one of Australia’s most wanted alleged terrorists believed he was too good to be killed despite reports of his death.
Neil Christopher Prakash is facing Melbourne Magistrates Court accused of six terrorism-related offences, including engaging in hostile activity in a foreign state, being a member of a terrorist organisation and advocating terrorism.
The court on Wednesday heard evidence from Detective Sergeant Adam Foley who led the Australian Federal Police’s Joint Counter-Terrorism Team investigation into Prakash until 2020.
Prakash first came to the attention of federal investigators in February 2015 following a news article, Twitter “banter” with a journalist and veiled threats made by the accused online.
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