A 28-year-old man who threatened a magistrate and vowed to behead Australians upon his release from jail has been sentenced to four years behind bars. 9News
It earned him the first terrorism charge by the NSW Police's new "Fixated Persons Unit" which set up in the wake of the Lindt Cafe Siege.
On Wednesday, members of that team sat in the back row of King Street Court, as the court heard it was "critically important" to decipher between those wishing to harm Australians and those in a state of confusion. Justice Ian Harrison found the offences lay towards the lower end of the range of objective seriousness.
This was because of Mr Pender's "disordered mind," the judge finding his offending was associated with his condition of schizophrenia. Mr Pender was sentenced to imprisonment of four years with a non-parole period of three years for the offence of possessing a knife connected with a terrorist act.
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