Boy admits Anzac Day attack plot

A TEENAGER has appeared in a Sydney court and admitted plotting a terrorist attack on an Australian ceremony marking the Gallipoli landings.

The youth was arrested last April, when he was then 16, and was accused of planning to launch the attack as hundreds of thousands of Australians gathered at ceremonies across the country to mark Anzac Day.

The annual holiday commemorates the Gallipoli landings in Turkey on April 25, 1915, the first major military action fought by the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps during the First World War.

The youth, now 17, appeared at Parramatta children’s court in western Sydney and pleaded guilty to planning a terrorist act by trying to source a gun or a bomb-making manual. He will remain in custody until the case returns to court on April 21 and faces a potential life sentence.

In 2015, a 15-year-old boy from Lancashire was jailed for life for inspiring an internet plot to behead police at an Anzac Day parade in Australia.