Sevdet Besim was described as a ‘kind and considerate’ teen
A MELBOURNE teen who plotted to behead a police officer on Anzac Day was “a kind and considerate young person”, a court has heard.
A MELBOURNE teenager who plotted to behead a police officer on Anzac Day was “a kind and considerate young person” and his parents had high hopes for him, a court has heard.
Sevdet Ramadan Besim, 19, has pleaded guilty to a single terror-related charge over a thwarted plan that would have seen him run down a police officer last year before beheading him in a violent rampage.
His barrister, George Georgiou SC, said Besim was never considered a “problem child” by his parents.
“They regarded him as a kind and considerate young person who showed respect towards his elders,” he told Besim’s plea hearing in the Victorian Supreme Court.
“He did not smoke, did not drink, did not indulge in drugs.”
Besim’s barrister says the Hallam teenager isn’t being kept with the mainstream prison population because of the nature of his charge.
“There is a fair chance he will remain in protection for a significant part of his sentence,” Mr Georgiou told the 19-year-old’s plea hearing on Tuesday.