Minto stabbing – Ihsas Khan
On 10 September 2016, Ihsas Khan stabbed his neighbour Wayne Greenhalgh, 57, many times with a hunting knife in a driveway in Minto, in Sydney's south-west. Mr Greenhalgh survived after running to a nearby hairdressing salon for help. SBS reported that Khan shouted "Allahu Akbar" during the attack, and the ABC reported that he was tasered, arrested and charged with committing a terrorist act. The jury accepted the prosecution case that he had planned to attack a civilian on or around 11 September, the anniversary of the 2001 attacks, and that he chose Mr Greenhalgh because of a T-shirt carrying a US stars-and-stripes and Iwo Jima flag-raising image.
Khan pleaded not guilty on the ground of mental illness. In May 2019, after a series of mistrials, the sixth jury to hear the case found him guilty. On 5 June 2019, Justice Geoffrey Bellew of the NSW Supreme Court sentenced him to 36 years' imprisonment, with a non-parole period of 27 years. The judge said: "The offender's attack was violent, ferocious and inhumane," and "The offender did not just set out to harm Mr Greenhalgh, he was on a mission to kill him." The ABC reported that Mr Greenhalgh has ongoing nerve damage, insomnia and post-traumatic stress disorder, and cannot work.
A 2020 paper by NSW Supreme Court Justice Peter Johnson records that R v Khan (No. 11) and R v Shoma (Vic) "were the first persons to be sentenced for the offence of intentionally engaging in a terrorist act, with sentence being passed coincidentally on the same day in the Supreme Courts of NSW and Victoria."
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