Posted on 06/01/2004 12:19:17 PM PDT by knighthawk
A British-born Muslim convert convicted in Australia's first terrorism trial of plotting to bomb the Israeli Embassy in Canberra was sentenced to nine years in prison.
Perth District Court judge Paul Healy said 50-year-old Jack Roche, originally from Hull, should serve four and a half years before becoming eligible for parole, although he backdated the term to start when Roche was taken into custody - meaning that Roche could be free in about three years.
Prosecutor Ron Davies earlier described Roche's plot as an affront to Australian values, and called for a sentence approaching the 25-year maximum to serve as "a dramatic deterrent'.
"He planned to bring these ideas, these people who are the scourge of the modern, civilised world, back into his own country," Davies said.
Ping
Did ole Jack change his name to Akmed or al-Mohammed or some such swiney name?
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