Sydney church stabbing: police charge 16-year-old boy with terrorism offence | Australia news

Police have charged a 16-year-old boy alleged to have stabbed a bishop and priest at a western Sydney church with a terrorism offence.

On Thursday night, New South Wales police announced the teenager, who had been recovering after undergoing surgery after severing his finger following the attack on Monday night, had been charged.

Police said in a statement that on Thursday afternoon counter-terrorism investigators “attended a medical facility to interview the boy, before he was charged with committing a terrorist act … an offence which carries a maximum penalty of imprisonment for…

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