Notorious jihadi left free to kill
himself with a Victorian Middle-Eastern crime family but was not regarded as fearsome.
A corrections source said Khayre shared similarities with Sydney Lindt cafe siege killer Man Haron Monis.
He said both tried to give the appearance of religious devotion but, at heart, were just violent criminals.
“He’s like Monis. That’s his profile,” the source said.
“He was an absolute goose. He was a Monis-type idiot.” parole in December, 2016, despite judges previously stating it was unlikely he could be rehabilitated.
“He was a nuisance, highmaintenance,” the source said. “He officer-shopped until he got what he wanted.”
His defiance extended to, on occasions, refusing to appear for morning muster counts.
Khayre was always considered more bad than radical Islamist until crime agencies suspected his involvement in a terror plot to kill up to 500 military personnel and civilians at the Holsworthy army base.
But he, and one other coaccused, walked free from court in mid 2010 after 15 months on remand.
Khayre almost immediately began abusing drugs following his acquittal.
As raids were carried out at Khayre’s mother’s house yesterday Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews promised to review the parole regime after Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull went on the offensive, demanding: “How was this man on parole?”
But the Victorian state government failed to answer how many of 22 prisoners and parolees in deradicalisation programs are in the community. Detectives are also probing how Khayre was able to get his hands on the sawn-off shotgun used in the siege.