One of two brothers is found guilty of terror plot to blow up a packed Etihad flight from Sydney using a bomb hidden in a meat grinder
- One of two brothers accused of terror plot on Etihad flight has been found guilty
- Khaled and Mahmoud Khayat were accused of plot to bring down in July 2017
- Khaled, 51, was found guilty by a NSW Supreme Court jury on Wednesday
One of the two brothers accused of a terror plot to blow up a packed Etihad flight from Sydney using a bomb hidden in a meat grinder has been found guilty.
Khaled and Mahmoud Khayat were accused of hatching a plot to bring down flight EY451 to Abu Dhabi with 400 passengers and crew members on board in July 2017.
Khaled, who claimed he was trying to prevent a terrorist attack, was found guilty by a NSW Supreme Court jury on Wednesday after more than two days of deliberations.
Khaled Khayat (pictured), who claimed he was trying to prevent a terrorist attack, was found guilty by a NSW Supreme Court jury on Wednesday after more than two days of deliberations
The 51-year-old had pleaded not guilty to conspiring - between January 20 and July 29 in 2017 - to do acts in preparation for, or planning of, a terrorist act.
They are yet to have reached a decision on Mahmoud.
The plan to detonate the bomb was aborted when the luggage it was held in was deemed too heavy at Sydney International Airport's check-in.
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The luggage was returned to Khaled's home in Lakemba, Sydney's south-west, and part of the bomb was found by police in his garage two weeks later.
'This is one of the most sophisticated plots that has ever been attempted on Australian soil,' Police Commissioner Mike Phelan said at the time.
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