SYDNEY: An Australian man has been jailed for a maximum of 44 years for aiding the terror-related killing of Curtis Cheng.
The 20-year-old Raban Alou had pleaded guilty to his role in murder of the police worker who was shot dead outside a Sydney police station.
BBC reported that Alou is the first person in Australia to be jailed for aiding and abetting a terror act that was then carried out.
After being sentenced, he saluted and said “this is only the beginning”.
According to prosecutors, Alou supplied a Smith & Wesson .38 revolver to 15-year-old Farhad Jabar at a Sydney mosque on 2 October, 2015 – the day of the shooting.
Jabar then murdered Mr Cheng, a police accountant, outside the New South Wales police headquarters in the suburb of Parramatta. Jabar was shot dead by responding police officers.
The teenager was reported to have shouted religious slogans at the scene.
In handing down his sentence, Justice Peter Johnson said Alou had “played a lead role” in the attack and shown no remorse for his actions.
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