28 April 2016

News Story: Plotters charged in killing of Australian police accountant

SYDNEY, April 27 (Xinhua) -- Further charges have been laid against four Australians who plotted and conspired a terrorist attack against police accountant Curtis Cheng in Sydney last year.

Cheng, of Chinese-Australian descent, was shot and killed by a 15-year-old radicalized teenager Farhad Jabar outside the New South Wales state police's western Sydney headquarters in early October 2015. The boy was subsequently shot by officers guarding the building.

The four men aged between 18 and 23, already in custody on other terror-related offences, on Wednesday were charged in relation to conspiring in the preparation to commit a terror attack against Cheng.

Read the full story at Xinhua