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Anzac terror teen pleads guilty

Teenager Sevdet Besim has pleaded guilty to planning an act of terrorism targeting ANZAC Day commemorations in Melbourne last year, including plotting to run down and behead a police officer.

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The 19-year-old from Hallam, in Melbourne’s south-east, was arrested in counter-terrorism raids a week before the public holiday in 2015.

But he has now changed his plea to guilty after his latest hearing in the Victorian Supreme Court.

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