Sameh Bayda and Alo-Bridget Namoa guilty of plotting NYE attack

A YOUNG married couple who described themselves as a “jihadi Bonnie and Clyde” has been found guilty in a Sydney court of planning to attack members of the public on New Year’s Eve.

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A YOUNG married couple self-described as a “jihadi Bonnie and Clyde” has been found guilty of plotting a Sydney terror attack.

Sameh Bayda and his bride Alo-Bridget Namoa spent barely a month as husband and wife in 2016 before they were arrested for planning to stab members of the public with a knife on New Year’s Eve.

After three days of deliberating, a jury in the NSW Supreme Court today found the 21 year olds guilty of conspiring to do an act in preparation for a terrorist act.

Police alleged before their arrest Namoa sent a text to Bayda saying they were a “jihadi Bonnie and Clyde”

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The Crown alleged the vast amount of extremist Islamic State 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 Shahada flag to look after as part of their plot, contending each believed they had a “religious obligation to attack nonbelievers”.

The prosecution alleged their plot ran between December 8, 2015 and January 25, 2016 — the day of Bayda’s arrest.

Bayda gave Namoa a hunting knife to look after as part of the plot.

His teen bride later wrote a love letter to her “booboo” declaring she would rather take a bullet between the eyes than turn on him, the court previously heard.

“Let them have their shit laws, but I won’t bargain with them … Allah is my legislator,” the letter read.

Bayda’s barrister Alissa Moen previously said her client’s intense love for his wife meant he would never have contemplated carrying out an atrocity which would have led to their separation through death or imprisonment.

Police previously alleged that before their arrest Namoa, who is of Pacific Islander descent and converted from Catholicism to Islam, sent a text to Bayda saying they were a “jihadi Bonnie and Clyde”.

The pair’s sentence hearing will be held in December.