Alo-Bridget Namoa & Bassam Hamzy: Jihadi bride’s prison letters
The jihadi bride convicted alongside her husband over the 2015 New Year’s Eve stabbing terror attack plot repeatedly wrote jail letters to murderous Brothers 4 Life founder Bassam Hamzy and penned threats to the NSW prison boss, it can be revealed.
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The jihadi bride in Australia’s Bonnie and Clyde terror duo repeatedly wrote jail letters to murderous Brothers 4 Life founder Bassam Hamzy and penned threats to the NSW prison boss offering to send him images of “beautiful beheadings” when she got out.
The malicious missives can be revealed as part of prison letters involving extremist couple Alo-Bridget Namoa and Sameh Bayda after they were jailed for plotting a 2015 New Year’s Eve stabbing terror attack in Sydney.
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Namoa’s message to Hamzy asked the state’s most high-risk inmate to “look out for” her husband Bayda because “he needs his big brothers in Islam to hold him down.”
“I’m trusting you to take him under your wing and look after him like his (sic) your own baby brother,” Namoa wrote in April 2016.
The lovers where jailed when they were both 18, and have since been released after claiming they had converted to Christianity.
But it can be revealed that while locked up Namoa wrote an abusive letter to the NSW corrective services commissioner Peter Severin, complete with violent Islamic State-inspired drawings where she threatened the then-prime minister.
“I’m very sick of this government. Malcolm pigbull (sic) needs to be put down don’t you reckon,” the latter read.
In September 2016 the self-described “baby terrorist” complained to Hamzy about losing her phone access behind bars, writing: “they recently charged me for giving this kafir bitch a razor because she started slashing up haha.”
Kafir is a derogatory term for non-Muslims, and Namoa added: “lol a bloody gorilla has more common sense than these cheap prostitutes”, according to court documents.
In February this year a Federal Court judge ordered 21 strict conditions on Namoa to remain in force until December 2020, after federal police tendered a raft of letters she penned from Silverwater women’s jail to support their argument that the now 22-year-old needs to be controlled while free in the community.
The Auburn-raised youngster drew images of figures dressed in black with face coverings who held guns and a severed head next to a decapitated person, an AFP officer said in an affidavit.
Another document seized from Namoa’s cell shows a person giving the IS one-finger salute and holding the terrorist organisation’s flag, while another has a speech bubble saying: “die in ur rage.”
In one letter to the corrections boss Namoa asked “do you think we could turn a kafir’s brain into macaroni?” while in a separate letter she spoke of IS brides being sent to fighters in Syria, saying: “I can find a good brother for your daughter.”
“I like blood, do you??” she wrote.
“If you do I can send you some beautiful beheadings when I get out in shaa Allah but AFP have my phone at the moment so maybe ask them to air drop all the beheadings to your phone.”
Bayda, who claims to have now converted to Christianity, regularly wrote to Namoa from custody and in December 2017 told her he’d be upset if she became more hardcore, adding: “there is no such thing as Islamic brotherhood.”
“Take it easy babe … stop being so religious … it freaks me out. Seriously scares me!” he wrote.
Around that time Namoa told guards she too had abandoned her fanatical views, and the couple no longer considered their 2015 Islamic wedding ceremony valid.
But in a 2016 letter to Hamzy discussing Namoa’s psychiatrist’s bail hearing testimony about her mental illness, she told him: “sometimes you just have to manipulate the dogs.”
In July 2019 Namoa wrote a letter to Hamzy’s cousin and fellow inmate Amna Rima saying: “please, good grief don’t give me a Hamze belting when I come see you … am I still your baby terrorist?”
In 2017 Bayda also warned Namoa against “writing to all these scums outside” and told her to stop making jokes with “that evil bitch” Umm Usama — a pseudonym used by Rose Karroum — saying it was “only going to harm you.”
Rose Karroum’s husband Guy Gibson Staines died fighting with fundamentalists in the Middle East along with her former Gold Coast private schoolgirl sister Amira Karroum and jihadi brother-in-law Tyler Casey.
“My husband was killed overseas … he was such a lion,” Rose Karroum wrote in a 2017 letter to Namoa.
“Nothing more revaulting (sic) than a proud kafir, oh wait yes there is, a Muslim who sells their (religion) … I literaly (sic) cringe when I see a kafir cause we all know they don’t wash themselves when they go to the toilet.”
During their trial it was revealed Namoa encouraged her young husband to go on a suicide mission attacking ‘nonbelievers’ and sent him a text saying: “I wanna do an Islamic Bonnie and Clyde version on the kuffs haha.”
Last June the federal attorney-general stepped in to stop the couple getting parole but Namoa has since been released in December while Bayda was freed when his full sentence expired in January.
Under Namoa’s interim control order conditions she must abide by a night-time curfew, report weekly to Fairfield police station and has strict controls on her internet, phone and social media use to prevent her accessing IS propaganda.
She is also banned from communicating with any prisoner including Hamzy, contacting anyone in Turkey, Iraq or Syria and from visiting Sydney Airport and Karroum’s Punchbowl address.
Originally published as Alo-Bridget Namoa & Bassam Hamzy: Jihadi bride’s prison letters