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A jury has found Sydney man Ihsas Khan guilty of committing a terrorist act for stabbing his neighbour — an act he said was like “eating a chocolate bar”.
Khan was charged after attacking Wayne Greenhalgh in a driveway in the Sydney suburb of Minto on September 10, 2016.
Mr Greenhalgh sustained life-threatening injuries, but survived after running to a nearby hair dressing salon.
During one of his trials he told the court he wanted to be “a martyr” and egged on police to shoot him after stabbing Mr Greenhalgh.
He was tasered, taken into custody and later charged with committing a terrorist act with the intent to influence the Australian Government.
Khan pleaded not guilty, because of mental illness.
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Blood on the floor of a hair salon where Mr Greenhalgh escaped to. (ABC News: Jackson Vernon)
A jury agreed with the prosecution’s argument that Khan had been planning to attack a civilian at random on, or around, September 11 to coincide with the anniversary of the Al Qaeda attacks on the United States.
Khan picked out his neighbour, Mr Greenhalgh, because he believed he was wearing a shirt with some sort of American motif on it.
When Mr Khan saw the blood he was heard to say: “What a beautiful sight this is.”
Locked out of the hairdressers, the court heard earlier in the trial that Khan stabbed at the glass door with the knife saying: “They killed our people, he should be killed too”, “Allah Akbar” and “they tried to kill my brothers and sisters in Iraq”.
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