AUSTRALIA_ VICTORIA COURTS LAW_ ‘Very rare’: The reason Melbourne jihadi Momena Shoma was jailed for 42 years

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‘Very rare’: The reason Melbourne jihadi Momena Shoma was jailed for 42 years

A baby-faced wannabe terrorist, who moved to Melbourne to kill, has been jailed for 42 years — and the sentence is spot on.


Rohan Smith@ro_smith
news.com.au June 7, 20196:18am



Momena Shoma was jailed for 42 years. Picture: Erik Anderson/AAP Source:AAP


Momena Shoma spent four minutes holding a knife, trying desperately to drive the fatal blow into Roger Singaravelu’s neck.

The diminutive Bangladeshi student shouted “Allahu Akbar” (God is great) over and over inside the bedroom of a brick house at Mill Park in Melbourne’s northeast. All the while, Mr Singaravelu’s daughter was watching, screaming.

More than a year after the terrifying, near fatal attack, the six-year-old is still tormented by what she saw on February 9, 2018.

It was planned, premeditated and practised but ultimately unsuccessful. The then 25-year-old’s bold plan to travel to Australia and kill in the name of Islamic State fell short of its goal — Mr Singaravelu survived.

Despite that, Shoma — who had been in Australia for just eight days before she attacked Mr Singaravelu — was jailed for 42 years.

She will serve a minimum of 31 years. The sentence is, at face value, especially lengthy for a crime that did not result in death. But experts say Shoma falls into a category all of her own.

Dr Nigel Stobbs from the Faculty of Law at Queensland University of Technology explained why Shoma’s sentence was so long.



The 26-year-old will spend at least 31 years in jail.Source:Supplied



Momena Shoma tried to kill her host.Source:Supplied


“Even for something like a murder it would be exceptionally long, but in this case it probably isn’t so,” he told news.com.au.

He said Shoma is the first person in Australia to be convicted of engaging in a terrorist act in the name of violent jihad.

“The maximum penalty for carrying out a terrorist act — it’s life. In Victoria, that means the duration of a person’s natural life. Theoretically the court could’ve put her away until she dies. It’s very rare that someone is locked up forever.”

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