Teen jailed in Australia over foiled beheading plot
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By AFP 8 hours ago in World
A teenager who plotted to run down and behead a police officer in an Anzac Day terrorist attack in Australia after being "corrupted by lunatic clerics" was on Monday sentenced to 10 years in jail.
Sevdet Besim, 19, pleaded guilty to "doing an act in preparation, or planning for, a terrorist act" over the 2015 plan to attack commemorations in Melbourne honouring soldiers who fought and died for Australia.
The Victorian Supreme Court had previously heard that Besim discussed the plot in encrypted messages with a British boy, who was 14 at the time.
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