Anti-terrorism police have spoken with a Sydney man who was visited in jail by people who assisted fighters in Syria and sent money to Islamic State as part of widespread raids.
A former Islamic State supporter who was visited by terrorists while in prison was questioned during sweeping anti-terror raids in Sydney this week that saw five teenagers charged with various offences.
After his release, he was placed on a two-year extended supervision order - but a judge last year ruled against extending that order after finding he was not an unacceptable risk of committing terrorism offences. Seidler found that although Fayad said it was not his “intention” to be violent or engage in terrorism, “it was evident that his personal ideology continued to be extreme and that he continued to associate closely with people who held similarly extremist views and who condoned violent extremism in addition to being influenced by these people in his own thinking”.
In an intercepted phone call, that man was heard saying to Fayad: “You’re a true leader, brother,” to which Fayad replied: “That’s what I need, brother … I need someone like you”. “Apart from the breaches of his extended supervision order, Mr Fayad’s last offence occurred 10 years ago. It was not a terrorism offence,” Sweeney said, adding she was not satisfied the state had “shown to a high degree of probability that Mr Fayad poses an unacceptable risk of committing a serious terrorism offence” if not supervised.
A few months later, Fayad committed another crime - this time by being an accessory after the fact to the shooting of Michael Rooke at a gay nightclub in Rydalmere.
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