- Family were forced to leave their home in Lancashire, north-west England
- The court prevented the publication of his name but family were identified
- Teenager, who was 14 at the time, pleaded guilty to terrorism charges
- He was sentenced to life in jail at Manchester Crown Court in 2015
- He gave directions to an 18-year-old in Australia on attacking a police officer, driving a car with ISIS flag into a crowd and shooting people
- Melbourne1 teen Sevdet Besim has been in custody since April 18 in 2015
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The family of a teenager who planned a terror attack on Anzac Day in Australia have been forced to flee their home in the UK, amid security fears. Despite the court preventing the publication of the 15-year-old’s identity, his family were identified and forced to leave their home in the Lancashire area in north-west England. The UK teenager’s family reportedly moved from their home in consultation with authorities for ‘safety reasons’ and had been keeping an ‘extremely low profile’, reported the Daily Telegraph2.
The family of a UK teenager who was sentenced to life in jail at Manchester Crown Court (pictured) in 2015, after pleading guilty to inciting terrorism charges, have had to flee their home in England’s north-west amid security fears
Threats to the teenager’s family had reportedly been made via social media. Their 15-year-old son was sentenced to life in jail at Manchester Crown Court in 2015, after pleading guilty to inciting others to commit an act of terrorism in the name of Islamic State. The UK teenager, who was 14 at the time, posed as an older man and directed an 18-year-old Australian man to carry out the attacks.
The instructions to Melbourne teenager Sevdet Besim included decapitating a police officer, driving into Melbourne s Anzac Day march crowd with a car with an ISIS flag on the bonnet, shooting people and practising a decapitation on a loner. In online communication with the UK teenager, Besim said he chose Anzac Day to ‘make sure the dogs remember this as well as there fallen heros (sic)’. He said he was ‘ready to fight these dogs on there (sic) doorstep’.
The UK teenager instructed Melbourne teenager Sevdet Besim (pictured) to launch an attack on Anzac Day in Australia, including decapitating a police officer, driving into Melbourne s Anzac Day march crowd with a car with an ISIS flag on the bonnet and shooting people
‘I’d love to take out some cops.
‘I was gonna meet with them then take some heads ahaha.’
Besim had a pledge to the leader of Islamic State on his phone and had created a ‘martyrdom’ note discussing his burial wishes, the Victorian Supreme Court heard. He has been in custody since April 18 last year when 200 heavily armed officers swooped on the city’s southeast.
In his communication with the UK teenager Besim (pictured) said ‘I’d love to take out some cops. ‘I was gonna meet with them then take some heads ahaha’
During the UK teenager’s sentencing his defence counsel told the court the boy came to believe killings, beheadings and live burnings as justified because thousands of people on the internet had made them appear to be normal. The UK teenager was reportedly in contact with ISIS recruiter Khaled al-Cambodi, three terrorist-linked British hate preachers including Anjem Choudary and extremists in Canada, the US and Britain.
His family has never spoken about their son s case and it is understood not even their lawyers now know their whereabouts.
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- ^ Melbourne (www.dailymail.co.uk)
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