A young man, who came close to launching a violent attack on non-Muslims in Auckland has been sentenced to another two-and-a-half years in jail
The man, who has interim name suppression, has been in prison since being arrested in 2021.
Justice Edwards declined his lawyer's request for home detention, but said his time in prison had helped him to get back on track.
Court records show the man, now 21, became radicalised online as a teenager, storing hundreds of graphic Islamic State videos and documents including the Christchurch terrorist's manifesto.
He had kept a diary, recording his plans for a terror attack and his intent to kill multiple people in Auckland, having scoped 80 possible locations.
Justice Edwards described how the defendant had set out three times with the intention of committing an attack - but did not go through with it.
The defendant was arrested a week after the unrelated LynnMall terror attack in September 2021, after telling an undercover police officer online that he wished to bring his own plans for an attack forward.
The police officer was posing as an Islamic State sympathiser.
Crown prosecutor Henry Steele told the court the man was "frighteningly close" to committing a violent attack.
On the eve of his trial last November, the defendant admitted to all nine charges including threatening to kill.
