Che Hermans charged with filming ISIS beheading threat outside Mountview Shops, Redbank Plains

The man claims to have received instructions from ISIS to behead a civilian inside the shopping centre.

Mountview Shopping Centre, Redbank Plains. Picture: Nicola McNamara

A man has been arrested for allegedly videoing himself outside a South East Queensland shopping centre and threatening to behead someone inside.

Redbank Plains resident Che Pierson Hermans, 27, applied for bail in Ipswich Magistrates Court on May 8.

He is charged with three counts of using a carriage service to make a threat to kill, and one count of threatening violence at night (DV).

Police will allege Mr Hermans sent his parents a video on March 25 which showed him holding a knife to his throat outside Mountview Shopping Centre in Redbank Plains.

Police prosecutor Nanette Green said Mr Hermans had stated in the video: “This is a warning by ISIS.”

“ISIS is going to create a beheading within the next week – a civilian within this very local shopping centre,” she continued to quote.

“I’ve been told I’ve been allocated to cut someone’s head off, so if you do not reach out within the next two days, I will disfigure a human head off their body.”

It’s alleged he also entered his mother’s house at 3am on the same date and yelled that he was going to behead her and “gut her like a pig”.

Snr Constable Green said the prosecution was concerned Mr Hermans placed, not just his mother, but also the general community at risk.

Defence lawyer Yassar Khan said his police had searched Mr Hermans home the following day and found no evidence of radicalisation or any connections to ISIS.

“(The allegations) would, in my submission, be born out of a potential psychotic episode, as opposed to any real (terrorist) threat,” Mr Khan said.

“(Mr Hermans) is incredibly remorseful for the position he placed his mother in … It’s not lost on him, the seriousness of this conduct, at all.”

Mr Khan said his client had been diagnosed with cannabinoid psychotic disorder and may be eligible for an unsoundness defence.

He said his client would be in “significant risk” of spending too much time in custody if bail was refused.

Magistrate Robert Walker said the allegations were “serious and disturbing”.

He acknowledged police had not found any evidence of Mr Hermans having links to terrorist organisations.

But he said “the risk, even in those circumstances, remains real”.

“The management of that risk is entirely dependant on (Mr Hermans) complying with a treatment regimen.”

Mr Walker said the danger Mr Hermans could impose if granted bail was unacceptable.

He refused Mr Hermans bail, and adjourned the matter to May 31 for a committal mention.