A woman dubbed the “baby terrorist” is back in police custody after allegedly sending text messages to a relative threatening to kill.
Alo-Bridget Namoa, 24, was arrested at her western Sydney home on Sunday night and charged with using a carriage service to make a threat to kill and using a carriage service to make a threat to cause serious harm.
The first charge carries a maximum penalty of a decade behind bars.
Ms Namoa, who is the subject of a AFP control order granted in the Federal Court last year, allegedly sent text messages threatening to physically harm a relative.
Ms Namoa was released from prison in December last year after several stints behind bars.
She spent three years and nine months in jail for plotting a stabbing rampage against “nonbelievers” during Sydney’s New Year’s Eve celebrations in 2015.
Less than a year after she was released she breached a terror control order and was jailed again for 16 months.
A Federal Court judgment revealed that leading up to her release 12 months earlier she had downloaded an image of a jihadist flag.
According to the documents, Ms Namoa was also captured in a photo with her brother raising their right index fingers in an “IS salute”.
She sent texts to her family members, including her mother and sister, threatening to “shoot”, “stab” or “kill” people. She also threatened to “cave (her sister’s) head in”.
The judgement revealed she did not abandon her Islamic faith either.
“Namoa admitted, in around September 2020, that she did not abandon her Islamic faith as she had claimed to various people around the time of her sentencing hearing and in her evidence before the sentencing judge,” the judgement states.”
While in May 2020 she also contacted a woman whose husband was convicted of terrorism-related offences, the document states.
Justice Burley said there were several reasons to believe Ms Namoa presented an “ongoing risk of committing, supporting or facilitating a terrorist act” before approving the 12 month control order.
As part of the order she was banned from contacting several individuals including Brothers For Life found Bassam Hamzy.
Ms Namoa did not apply for bail in Parramatta Local Court on Monday.
She will reappear in court at a later date.
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