Australian teen jailed over Islamic State-inspired plot
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MELBOURNE -- A teenager who plotted to run over and behead a police officer as part of an Islamic State group-inspired attack on an Australian Veterans' Day ceremony has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Sevdet Besim pleaded guilty in Victoria state's Supreme Court in June to one count of planning for a terrorist act and had faced a maximum sentence of life in prison.
On Monday, the court instead ordered Besim to serve a 10-year prison term, with the possibility of parole after seven and a half years.
Prosecutors said Besim was involved in a plot to attack last year's services in Melbourne or the neighboring city of Dandenong marking ANZAC Day, the annual commemoration of the 1915 Gallipoli landings in Turkey.
