Yacqub Khayre’s life of crime
April 2007:
Is sentenced as a teenager to two years’ detention in a Youth Justice Centre for somewhere between 42 and 45 offences. Charges including multiple burglaries and thefts, assault, providing a false name and address, drug possession, car theft and unlicensed driving at dangerous speeds.
June 2007:
While still incarcerated he is sentenced for attempted armed robbery and intentionally causing injury after stabbing a man on a train twice in the leg, demanding the victim’s money and phone.
February 2008:
Released on an adjourned undertaking on single charges of burglary and theft.
December 2010:
After a six-month trial, Khayre is cleared by a jury over his alleged role in planning the 2009 Holsworthy army barracks terror plot in western Sydney. Wissam Mahmoud Fattal, Saney Edow Aweys, Nayev el Sayed are jailed in 2011 for a maximum of 18 years for planning a terrorist act to kill as many people as possible in a mass shooting at the army base.
November 2011:
Sentenced to 111 days in jail for the possession of a Yacqub Khayre leaves court in 2010. firearm and ammunition without a licence, one charge of car theft and failure to answer bail.
April 2012:
A drug affected Khayre breaks into a Melbourne family home in an attempted armed burglary. He is confronted by a woman, who he strikes repeatedly in the face, back, shoulder and stomach in a bid to escape. He pleads guilty to five charges and is sentenced to a maximum of five-and-a-half years in prison.
December 2016:
on parole.
Monday:
While on parole, Khayre shoots an apartment clerk dead and takes a female escort hostage in a Brighton apartment building. While trying to escape he fires at police, injuring three of them before being killed in a hail of bullets.
There have been too many cases of people on parole committing violent offences of this kind. Malcolm Turnbull
On Monday, the Seven Network took a phone call in its Melbourne newsroom from a woman who said she was in a hostage situation before man came on the line saying: “This is for IS, this is for al-Qaeda.”
Victoria Police are treating the attack as a terrorist incident and AAP photos show police carrying out of the apartment an evidence bag which has “hardcover book with Arabic writing [in cloth bag] on desk in living room” written on it.
Police were yesterday searching Khayre’s mother’s home in Melbourne suburb Roxburgh Park, while the bomb squad was searching the Buckingham Serviced Apartments on Bay St in Brighton.
Khayre was shot dead as he stormed out of the building and fired on police.
Two male Special Operations Group officers, including one with wounds to his face and neck, were taken to hospital while a third was treated at the scene.
A 36-year-old woman from Ripponlea sustained minor injuries after she was held hostage in the ground floor apartment.
Khayre once spent 16 months on remand before being acquitted of a 2009 plot to attack the Holsworthy army barracks in Sydney.
He was jailed in 2012 over a violent home invasion and released six months ago.
Ashton said Khayre had been on parole since being released from prison in November and “there was nothing wrong with his parole until yesterday”.
Turnbull said there were “very grave questions” about why Khayre was on the streets.
“How was this man on parole? He had a long record of violence,” Turnbull told reporters.
“He was known to have connections, at least in the past, with violent extremism.”
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews promised to look at every part of the parole system but said it had already worked to keep Khayre in jail longer than his minimum sentence.
“He’s been compliant [ since his release], including drug tests, attending appointments and observing a curfew,” Andrews said. British Prime Minister Theresa May’s lead over the opposition Labour Party ahead of tomorrow’s national election has narrowed to just one percentage point, according to a poll by Survation for ITV television.
The poll was conducted on Friday and Saturday, before an attack in London by Islamist militants that killed seven people and injured 48.
In the previous Survation poll for ITV, published a week ago, the Conservatives had a lead of six points. But a separate Survation poll, published on Saturday for the Mail on Sunday newspaper, also gave the Conservatives a one-point lead.