Boy, 16, arrested over 'Anzac Day terror plot' was in deradicalisation program

By Rachel Olding
Updated April 26 2016 - 5:13pm, first published 4:27pm
Zemarai Khatiz, the lawyer for the 16-year-old terrorist suspect. Photo: Darren Pateman
Zemarai Khatiz, the lawyer for the 16-year-old terrorist suspect. Photo: Darren Pateman
Police officers at the Auburn home of the 16-year-old boy on Monday.  Photo: James Alcock
Police officers at the Auburn home of the 16-year-old boy on Monday. Photo: James Alcock
Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione - at the Anzac Day Dawn Service with NSW Premier Mike Baird on Monday - announced the arrest shortly after the service began. Photo: Nick Moir
Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione - at the Anzac Day Dawn Service with NSW Premier Mike Baird on Monday - announced the arrest shortly after the service began. Photo: Nick Moir

A 16-year-old boy arrested over an alleged Anzac Day terrorism plot had been in a government-run deradicalisation program for about a year.

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