(ABC-Australia) A Supreme Court judge has granted bail to a Sydney teenager accused of terrorism and branded the case against him as “thin,” in a bruising ruling for the Australian Federal Police.
The 15-year-old was among six boys arrested in sweeping police raids on an alleged Sydney terrorist network in April, after another teenager stabbed an Assyrian Orthodox bishop in a church in Wakeley, in the city’s west.
Four of those boys are accused of planning a terrorist attack in the wake of the stabbing, allegedly plotting to obtain guns and exchanging messages about their willingness to kill and die as so-called martyrs.
The 15-year-old was part of a chat group called “Plans,” on the encrypted messaging app Signal, where they allegedly conspired to plan a terrorist act between April 18 and 24.
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