Just Earth News | @justearthnews | 06 Jun 2019, 04:23 pm Print
Melbourne: An Australian court has sentenced a Bangladeshi woman to 42 years in jail after she was found guilty of engaging in a terrorist act in the country.
She carried out an Islamic State-inspired attack when she had stabbed her homestay landlord.
Momena Shoma attacked Roger Singaravelu with a kitchen knife while he was having an afternoon nap in his Mill Park home, in Melbourne's north, in February 2018, reported ABC News.
The Victorian Supreme Court had heard she yelled "Allahu akbar" as she plunged the knife into Singaravelu's neck with such force the blade tip broke off when it was dislodged, ABC News reported.
The woman's daughter witnessed the act and is still suffering from fear, trauma and an inability to trust people.
Shoma pleaded guilty to engaging in a terrorist act for the advancing of a political, religious or ideological cause, namely violent jihad, reported ABC News.
The Bangladeshi woman also received a non-parole period of 31 years and six months.
Shoma was radicalized during her stay in Dhaka in 2013, media reports said.
She was reportedly attracted by the rise of the Islamic State caliphate in Syria and Iraq a year later.
On the morning of the attack she had downloaded a video from Islamic State's media centre, Al Hayat, entitled Flames of War, reported ABC News.
