Jihadi Bonnie and Clyde: New video of police interview
STUNNING new vision has emerged of one half of Sydney’s “jihadi Bonnie and Clyde” attempting to explain away to police why he had a how-to guide for a “successful stabbing”. SEE THE VIDEO
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STUNNING new vision has emerged of one half of Sydney’s “jihadi Bonnie and Clyde” attempting to explain away to police why he had a how-to guide for a “successful stabbing”.
Shortly after his arrest, convicted terrorist Sameh Bayda told officers the worksheet — which included tips on “correct” knives and “deadly areas” to target — was something he downloaded “off the news”.
“Effectively you’re looking up how to kill people,” a police officer says to him in an interview room.
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Bayda responds: “No, no. That’s … I don’t want that, how to kill people. No, I don’t need to look up how to kill people.”
When asked about a collection of knives police had discovered, Bayda — who along with wife Alo-Bridget Namoa dubbed themselves the “jihadi Bonnie and Clyde” — said he simply stored them at his young bride’s house as part of a collection.
“Can you tell me about these knives?” the officer asked.
“It was hers. I, I had, um, given it to her to keep at her house,” Bayda said.
The jihadi wannabe couple had been married for only a month in 2016 before they were arrested for planning to stab members of the public with a knife on New Year’s Eve.
They will be sentenced in December after a jury found them guilty in the NSW Supreme Court of preparing to carry out a terrorist act.
Never before-seen photos have emerged of Bayda and Namoa posing in a mirror and putting their fingers in the air in a salute that has become synonymous with Islamic State.
It was the Crown case that a vast amount of extremist IS material, including graphic execution videos found on the then 18-year-olds’ phones, reflected their violent ideology.
Prosecutor Nicholas Robinson QC said Bayda gave Namoa a hunting knife and black IS flag to look after as part of their plot, contending each believed they had a “religious obligation to attack nonbelievers”.
The prosecution outlined how their plot ran between December 8, 2015, and January 25, 2016 — the day Bayda was arrested.
His teen bride later wrote a love letter to her “boo-boo”, declaring she would rather take a bullet between the eyes than turn on him, the court heard during the trial.