The Islamic fanatic who murdered a young Australian woman before running amok in Sydney’s CBD is trying to convince a court that he was “only pretending” to be a jihadi.
Just ignore the facts.
The man who murdered young woman Michaela Dunn before slashing at strangers with a knife in Sydney’s CBD says he watched footage of the Christchurch massacre more than 20 times in the months before the attack.
“I was just really obsessed with it … I couldn’t keep my eyes off it,” Mert Ney told the NSW Supreme Court at his sentence hearing on Tuesday morning.
But Ney bristled at the suggestion he was motivated by religious extremism as he ran through Sydney’s streets wielding a knife.
He insisted he was only pretending to be a terrorist when he shouted “Allahu Akbar” and did the Islamic State salute so police would shoot him dead.
Right. So that explains why he also sent his friends Snapchat photos of the crime, while flashing the jihadist “tawhid” sign. The coppers weren’t going to see those, and he knew it.
On August 13, 2019, Ney brutally murdered Ms Dunn in a unit on Clarence Street before emerging and stabbing survivor Lin Bo in an attack that brought the CBD to a standstill.
Bystanders trapped him under a milk crate before police arrived.
The details of Ms Dunn’s murder are graphic and horrible. What Ney did next was even more vile.
In the aftermath of her death, he filmed himself posing with Ms Dunn’s body on social media app Snapchat and sent it to a friend.
For a not-really-Islamic murderer, he spent a fair bit of time and energy gettin’ his jihad on.
Ney had started to attend a mosque in Blacktown just prior to the attack, the court was told[…]when the Crown prosecutor asked if he had left the mosque because the people there were peaceful, an irritated Ney replied: “Nice spin. Nice spin on the story.”
He also chuckled as he was questioned over sick “jokes” he made to a friend about killing people and having sex with a corpse[…]
When Ney was arrested, he was carrying a USB with footage of the massacre that killed 51 people at the Al Noor Mosque and Linwood Islamic Centre in March 2019.
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Yet he denies that he was motivated to murder non-Muslims in a revenge attack, or that he was chasing his 72 virgins in a martyr’s paradise.
If it walks like a jihadi, allahu-ackbars like a jihadi, and slaughters the innocent like a jihadi…don’t try and fool us that it’s really a duck.
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