Minto terrorist guilty of hair salon stabbing

An IS-inspired terrorist has been found guilty of a 2016 stabbing in suburban Sydney, which he described as “like eating a chocolate bar”.

Minto terrorist Ihsas Khan has been found guilty of the Islamic State-inspired stabbing attack of Wayne Greenhalgh outside a suburban hair salon in September 2016.

A jury has found Khan, 24, guilty of committing a terrorist act for stabbing his neighbour the day before the 15th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks.

Then a pharmacy student, Khan stabbed 52-year-old Mr Greenhalgh with a hunting knife yelling “Allahu Akbar”.

Khan chased him down a street in the Sydney suburb of Minto and stabbed at the door of a garage hair salon where Mr Greenhalgh took refuge, bleeding profusely on the salon floor.

Khan said afterwards his victim’s blood was “a beautiful sight” and that stabbing him was like “eating a chocolate bar”.

Ihsas Khan brandishes a large knife during an alleged terror attack in Minto. Picture: A Current Affair/9NEWS

Wayne Greenhalgh (right) and wife Bronwen at the Supreme Court during his attacker’s trial. Picture: Carrett.

Injuries tro the hand of Minto stabbing victim Wayne Greenhalgh. Picture: A Current Affair.

Mr Greenhalgh had just returned from Kmart on the Saturday afternoon when he saw Khan emerged from his house with a back pack.

“Mr Khan ran at him brandishing a large knife and tried to stab him in the head,” Crown prosecutor Caroline Davenport, SC, told the NSW Supreme Court during the trial.

When a neighbour intervened and hit Khan over the head with a fence paling and police arrived, Khan stabbed at the police car window yelling, “I want to die today”, Ms Davenport said.

Mr Greenhalgh sustained life-threatening injuries, but survived after running to the neighbouring salon.

Khan told the court he wanted to be “a martyr” and egged on police to shoot him after stabbing Mr Greenhalgh.

He was tasered, taken into custody and later charged with committing a terrorist act with the intent to influence the Australian Government.

He will be sentenced at a later date.

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