Bail laws: Anger as terror suspect Alo-Bridget Namoa previously allowed to go free
DELAYS to bail laws sparked anger after Alo-Bridget Namoa, who police claim was “up to her eyeballs” in helping plan a terror attack, was allowed to walk free.
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DELAYS to tough bail laws sparked widespread anger yesterday after an 18-year-old woman, who police claim was “up to her eyeballs” in helping her husband plan a terrorist attack in Sydney, was allowed to walk free on our streets.
The Daily Telegraph revealed Alo-Bridget Namoa had been arrested and charged on Tuesday with recklessly possessing an item connected to a terrorist act and recklessly collecting documents connected to a terrorist act.
At the time of her arrest she was out on bail for charges related to not answering questions at the Crime Commission relating to her husband’s alleged terror plot.
Labor has accused the government of incompetence for allowing Namoa back on the streets, as Premier Mike Baird yesterday vowed to make the new laws effective “as soon as humanly possible”.
According to documents tendered in Fairfield Local Court yesterday, Namoa was allegedly found in possession of a tactical hunting knife as well as an image of a document in Arabic text that provides instruction on how to make a detonator for an improvised explosive device.
Magistrate Les Mabbutt freed Namoa on bail on February 11 after hearing evidence that she boasted about being the “Islamic Bonnie and Clyde” with her husband, who is also behind bars, and concerns that she was a supporter of Islamic State.
Stricter bail laws, passed by the NSW parliament last year, have not yet become law and so were not available to Mr Mabbutt.
Mr Baird refused to put a date on when the new laws will come into effect, saying: “It does take time, but we’re doing it as quickly as we possibly can.”
QUESTIONS TOO HARD TO ANSWER
Questions from the Crime Commission t0 Alo-Bridget Namoa, February 5, 2016 FROM 9:30am to 1:04pm
î Why were you and your husband downloading ISIS propaganda material?
î Did your husband discuss places to conduct an attack?
î Is Sameh Bayda a supporter of ISIS?
î Has your husband ever told you that he wanted to kill people?
î Where did you get the knife that was located in your handbag?
î Where did you get the flag thago out and find a place where people congregate?
î Have you discussed with your husband about being separated from each other in the future?
î What did you mean I want something left for me?
What did you mean by the hereafter or after world?
î What were you referring to when saying you will get your certificate?
î Your husband was talking about dying there wasn’t he?
î Do you know why your husband was contemplating death?
î Was he planning to die?
î Did yo mean you were going to get pregnant and he was going to die?
î What does all that mean?
î Why was he going to leave the dunya?
î Doesn’t that mean he’s going to die?
î Was he planning to martyr himself?
î What do you mean by I want to do an Islamic Bonnie and Clyde on the kaffir?
î Were you prepared to sacrifice your life alongside your husband?
î Did you write that note?
î Were you referring to the couple in San Bernardino?
î When you referred to Bonnie and Clyde were you planning a terrorist act with your husband?
î Do you know why has asked you to delete the message the messages from your mobile phone?
î Is it because those messages indicated he was going to do a terrorist act?
î Is it because your husband intended to die in martyrdom?
î Why did your download it?
î Who are your husband’s friends?
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