Alo-Bridget Namoa threatens to ‘pour acid down someone’s throat’

A woman dubbed the “baby terrorist” — who once claimed to denounce her radical beliefs — has been released from prison despite making several frenzied threats to “shoot”, “stab” and “kill” people.

Alo-Bridget ‘Bree’ Namoa — dubbed the “baby terrorist” — who once claimed to denounce her radical beliefs has been released from prison despite making several frenzied threats last year, including to “shoot”, “stab” and “kill” people and pour acid down someone’s throat.

The Auburn-raised 24-year-old spent three years and nine months behind bars during her first stint in prison for plotting a stabbing rampage against “nonbelievers” at Sydney’s 2015 NYE festivities, with her ex-husband Sameh Badeh.

Eight months after she was released Namoa breached a terror control order which saw her jailed for 16 months.

She was released on Monday despite new court documents outlining she presents “an ongoing risk of committing a terrorist act”.

Alo-Bridget Namoa leaves her solicitor’s office in the Sydney CBD on Thursday. Picture: John Grainger

The 24-year-old has been dubbed the “Baby terrorist. Picture: John Grainger

A NSW Federal Court judgment filed last week reveals that in the weeks and months following her release in December 2019, she downloaded an image of a jihadist flag and received an image believed to be Namoa and her brother raising their right index fingers in an “IS salute”.

Between January and April, 2020, she wrote to her family threatening to “shoot”, “stab” and “kill” people, “f*kn hurt someone”, “pour acid down (a person’s) throat” and “cave (her sister’s) f*kn head in”.

The judgment also reveals Namoa admitted to someone in September, 2020, that she did not actually abandon her Islamic faith, despite telling a sentencing judge she had converted to Christianity.

Photos tendered during the trial of Alo-Bridget Namoa and Sameh Bayda.

Namoa and Bayda when they were a couple.

In May, 2020, she spoke to a woman whose husband was convicted of terrorism-related offences, then tried to contact her seven times a few months later, the documents show.

She also wrote to two people convicted of terrorism offences in July, 2020.

Federal police believe Namoa presents an “ongoing risk” of committing an attack, which Justice Stephen Burley agreed was a “justified concern” in his judgment.

“Namoa did not simply have a passing or fleeting interest in Islamic extremism. Rather, it was an enduring one. Nor was she passive in her consumption of that ideology. Rather, she espoused it and encouraged others to adopt it,” he wrote.

Namoa pleaded guilty to three federal charges of attempting to contravene her control order, including by asking her family to send her videos via WhatsApp, which was banned, with two other charges taken into account.

The court heard Namoa had taken steps to renounce her fanatical, extreme views, telling a psychologist she had come to reject that philosophy.

She was sentenced in the Parramatta District Court on Monday to 16 months in prison, backdated to her arrest date, meaning she was free to leave.

In the Federal Court on Thursday, Justice Burley approved a 12-month control order with no curfew requirements and more lenient conditions than the last one she breached.

The Daily Telegraph snapped a picture of Namoa laughing and smiling after the judgment with her lawyers in the Sydney CBD on Thursday.

She is banned from contacting Brothers For Life founder Bassam Hamzy who she has written to in the past, and Rose Karroum, whose husband Guy Gibson Staines died fighting with fundamentalists in the Middle East.

Her address has been suppressed by the court.

Police found a tactical knife wrapped in a jihadist flag in her handbag when she was just 18, which was to be used in the planned attack with Bayda.

Texts between the young lovers – who she dubbed the “Islamic Bonnie and Clyde” – showed her fanatical devotion to the Islamic State, like when she encouraged Bayda to continue with the suicide attack against “kuffars” (derogatory slang for non-Muslims) despite his second thoughts.

While in prison, she wrote threats to the NSW prison boss offering to send him images of “beautiful beheadings” when she got out.