MELBOURNE, Australia — A teenager who plotted to run over and behead a police officer as part of an Islamic State movement-inspired attack on an Australian Veterans' Day ceremony was sentenced on Monday to 10 years in prison. On Monday, the court instead ordered Besim to serve a 10-year prison term, with the possibility of parole after 7 ½ years. Police said Besim was motivated by an extremist ideology and had expressed support for the Islamic State group. The documents don't suggest the alleged kangaroo plot was linked to the ANZAC Day plot. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyLast year, a British court sentenced a 15-year-old boy from Blackburn, in northwestern England, for his role in the plot.

Source: New York Times September 05, 2016 01:42 UTC