‘Now I can get a facial’: Convicted terrorist’s plan upon release

Alo-Bridget Namoa was married to her husband for less than a month before they planned to become Sydney’s “Islamic Bonnie and Clyde” and attack people with knives.

The jihadi bride from Sydney’s “Islamic Bonnie and Clyde” terror couple has told a court what she missed most from the outside, before walking free from prison after sixteen months.

Alo-Bridget “Bree” Namoa, 24, spent more than three years and nine months behind bars after she was convicted at just 19-years-old by a jury of plotting a stabbing terror attack against ‘nonbelievers’ with her ex-husband Sameh Badeh.

The self-proclaimed “baby terrorist” wrote sensational threats to former NSW prison boss Peter Severin offering to send him images of “beautiful beheadings” when she got out.

Upon her release from prison in December 2019, Namoa was placed on a year-long control order to protect the public, with 21 strict conditions including a night curfew and restrictions on her mobile to prevent her accessing IS propaganda.

Convicted terrorist Alo-Bridget Namoa has walked free from jail after 16 months.

But she breached the order on five occasions between March and July, 2020, pleading guilty to three federal charges of attempting to contravene a control order, with two other charges being taken into account by Judge Stephen Hanley SC.

Namoa had asked her brother and cousin to send her husband videos so she could view them, and she allowed her husband to use her phone which was not allowed, the court was told.

On one occasion she asked her husband to take her for a drive after curfew arguing: “They‘re not going to know”.

She was sentenced in the Parramatta District Court on Monday to 16 months in prison, backdated to her arrest date in July, 2020, meaning she was free to leave.

Judge Hanley asked Namoa: “Do you understand the sentence imposed?”

She responded via video link from Clarence Correctional Centre: “Time served. Now I can get a facial”, before giggling.

Photos tendered during the trial of Alo Bridget Namoa.

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

“Well that’s something to look forward to, I guess,” Judge Hanley responded.

The court heard Namoa maintained her Muslim religion but had taken steps to renounce her phanatical jihadi views, telling a psychologist she had come to reject that philosophy.

She will live with her husband upon release, but will need help reintegrating into society, the court heard, including treatment for her anxiety, depression and personality disorder.

After the sentence had finished, Namoa’s barrister Nicole Carroll told her police had arranged an overnight train ticket from Grafton to Sydney and she would be given a phone.

“I got a few hundred dollars in my jail account,” Namoa told Ms Carroll.

She is bound by a control order in the community, with supervision by police.

During her terror trial it was revealed Namoa encouraged her then husband Badeh to go on a suicide mission and sent him a text saying: “I wanna do an Islamic Bonnie and Clyde version on the kuffs haha (derogatory slang for a Non-Muslim).