Australia Releases Terrorist After 4.5 Years
Charles Johnson
Thu May 17, 2007 at 8:17 am PDT • Views: 225
A British Muslim who plotted to blow up the Israeli embassy in Australia has been released on parole. After serving half of his sentence. Australia frees embassy plotter.
A British-born Muslim who plotted to blow up Israel’s embassy in Australia has been released from jail.
Jack Roche, 53, was freed on parole from a top-security prison in Perth, Western Australia, after serving half of his nine-year sentence. Under his parole conditions he must report regularly to police.
Roche was jailed in 2004 after he admitted having links to al-Qaeda and planning the Israeli embassy bombing, which was never carried out.
UPDATE at 5/17/07 8:54:28 am:
Several readers pointed out that the news stories about Roche are misleading; he was sentenced to time served, beginning with his arrest in 2002, so his actual time in prison was 4 and a half years.
Which is still just a little bit lenient.
Frank says: