By LACHLAN MOORHEAD
THE 15-YEAR-OLD boy from Britain implicated in the foiled terror plot allegedly targeting Anzac Day services in Melbourne’s south-east has plead guilty.
It comes as a 16-year-old girl from the UK, also charged in relation to the plot, was granted bail on strict conditions.
The male teen pleaded guilty via video link at the Old Bailey last week to one count of inciting another person to carry out an attack at a service in Australia.
A second charge of inciting terrorism overseas in relation to beheading a person in Australia was dropped.
The boy, 14 at the time and from north-west England, was arrested in April when police intercepted encrypted conversation allegedly with an 18-year-old man in Australia.
He was remanded and will be sentenced in September.
The boy cannot be named for legal reasons.
Also in April a 200-strong joint state and federal police counter-terrorism team executed seven search warrants in Narre Warren, Hampton Park, Hallam and Eumemmerring as part of Operation Rising.
As a result Harun Causevic of Hampton Park and Sevdet Ramdan Besim of Hallam were charged with conspiracy to commit acts done in preparation for, or planning, terrorist acts.
A third teenager Mehran Azami, 19, of Narre Warren, was charged with importing weapons planned for use in the foiled plot.
Two other Narre Warren men, aged 18 and 19, were released without charge.
Last month the 16-year-old girl from northern England was charged after she was implicated in the alleged terror plot.
The girl from Manchester has been charged with collecting or making a record of information likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing for an act of terrorism, or possessing a document or record containing information of that kind.
District Judge Howard Riddle released the girl on bail at Westminster Magistrates’ Court last week on the condition that she stay at a specific address, report regularly to police, observe a curfew and not leave the country or apply for international travel documents.
She is next due to appear at Manchester Youth Court in July.
