By CASEY NEILL
A HAMPTON Park man will no longer answer terrorism charges for his alleged role in an Anzac Terror plot.
Officers on 20 April charged Harun Causevic, 18, with conspiracy to commit acts done in preparation for terrorist acts, following pre-dawn counter-terrorism raids throughout Casey on 18 April through Operation Rising.
The Australian Federal Police and Victoria Police this morning released a statement confirming that after assessing all available, admissible evidence, the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions had decided there was insufficient evidence to continue the prosecution for this offence.
The statement said that in this case, police took early action to ensure no threat to the community.
“Police would rather the risk of a prosecution failing than the risk of members of the community being hurt or killed through no overt action,” it said.
In July, Narre Warren teen Mehran Azami, 19, pleaded guilty to 19 counts of importing weapons and three other charges and was remanded in custody to appear at the County Court on 22 October.
The News reported in May that police charged Azami with importing more than 200 weapons – including AK-47 flick knives and tasers designed to look like iPhones.
Police alleged Azami imported weapons for radicalised Muslim youth.
A 15-year-old boy from Britain pleaded guilty to one count of inciting another person to carry out an attack at a service in Australia.
Authorities dropped a second charge of inciting terrorism overseas in relation to beheading a person in Australia.
Police arrested the boy in April after intercepting encrypted conversation allegedly with an 18-year-old man in Australia.
The boy, from Blackburn in north-west England, will be sentenced in September and cannot be named for legal reasons.
Police released without charge two other Narre Warren men, aged 18 and 19, following the raids.
