A radicalised NSW prisoner will spend decades in jail for carving an Islamic State slogan on a cellmate's forehead after abandoning a plan to shoot police in a terrorist attack.
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Bourhan Hraichie is possibly more radicalised than when he committed the "disturbing mix" of four violent crimes in 2015 and 2016, NSW Supreme Court Justice Peter Johnson said on Friday.
The 22-year-old extremist provided a running commentary during the three-hour sentencing before he screamed and raised a fist when his 34-year jail term was announced.
Hraichie pleaded guilty to four offences over his long-running plan to organise a terrorist attack on Bankstown police station and causing grievous bodily harm to Michael O'Keefe with intent to murder.
He also threatened to kill NSW prisons boss Peter Severin in a letter in which he boasted about turning O'Keefe into an "IS sketchpad".
Hraichie, who has already spent much of his adolescent and adult life in detention, made plans to shoot police at Bankstown police station in Sydney in late 2015.
But after breaching his parole for unrelated offences and becoming unable to convince others to carry out his plans, Hraichie turned to terror behind bars.
In April 2016, hours after meeting new cellmate O'Keefe, Hraichie bashed the ex-solider, tied him up with bedsheets and waterboarded him with a blanket and hot water.
O'Keefe had a short moment of respite to cough up water and fall to his knees before Hraichie grabbed a razor and carved into the victim's forehead the slogan "E 4 E" - meaning "eye for an eye".
Hraichie later told counter-terrorism police he regretted not using a bigger knife.
"Although not a terrorist act, it was a hateful and cruel attack," Justice Johnson said.
As well as writing a letter to the prisons boss in 2016 threatening to "turn your jails in slaughterhouses", Hraichie penned an unsolicited letter to Justice Johnson this year to make clear his beliefs.
"I will always support jihad ... and I love my brothers in al-Qaeda and the Taliban," Hraichie said.
"You are a representative of democracy ... a false deity and I would never stand for (a false deity). Nor will I acknowledge, respect, accept or submit to this disbeliever."
The letter spelled out Hraichie's praise for the terror killing of NSW police accountant Curtis Cheng and stated his only regret for the O'Keefe attack was that waterboarding and mutilation were not strictly authorised in his extreme view of Islam.
Hrachie was "firmly committed to violent jihad" and rejected the laws of Australia while maintaining a fixated view "adverse to democracy and free society", Justice Johnson said.
"He dresses his beliefs in a cloak of religious dogma which is far removed in history and is based upon a distorted understanding of Islam," Justice Johnson said.
"He has had ample time since 2015 to consider his position in custody.
"If anything, the offender's attitude has hardened."
Hraichie was repeatedly told to be quiet during the sentencing.
He screamed "bullshit" and "I didn't f***ing say that" when evidence alluding to him having a tough time in Goulburn Supermax prison was read out.
The extremist also loudly rejected Justice Johnson describing terrorists' intent as "entirely morally bankrupt and totally cowardly".
The combined sentence of 34 years included terms of 20 years for the O'Keefe attack, 20 years for the police shooting preparations and six years, three months for the letter to the prisons boss.
Hraichie will be aged 50 when first eligible for parole in 2047.
Australian Associated Press
