ISIS-inspired jihadi ‘screaming Allahu Akbar’ repeatedly stabs random victim in park before turning knife on cops
Grandfather Wayne Greenhalgh, 59, lost several fingers in the attack and suffered a punctured lung
A KNIFE wielding 22-year-old man who allegedly stabbed a grandfather in a Sydney park during an ISIS inspired attack has been charged with terrorism.
Ihsas Khan, 22, allegedly unleashed his daylight terrorist attack in a suburban street of the Australian capital while reportedly chasing his victim shouting 'Allahu Akbar, this is a good day to die'.
Grandfather Wayne Greenhalgh, 59, was on his daily walk when he was confronted by Khan who brandished a large hunting knife and repeatedly stabbed him.
Mr Greenhalgh suffered multiple wounds to his hands and body as he tried to protect himself before managing to escape his attacker and flee to a nearby property where he was taken into an adjoining hairdressing salon by the owner.
Duyen Phan, who runs the salon from his home and Mr Greenhalgh, then barricaded themselves in the home while Khan continued to carry out his crazed attack and smash his way inside.
Neighbour Sivei Ah Chong, 43, confronted the attacker and repeatedly smashed Khan in the head with a plank of wood as he waited for the police to arrive.
Speaking to the he said: "My dad kept saying to him drop the knife or I will hit you and he (Khan) just said ‘Do it, I want you to do it’. Then my dad grabbed the piece of wood he had used before and smashed him over the head again and he backed off then and he looked a bit dazed.
"He then started yelling ‘call the police, call the police, I want them to come and shoot me I want to die today’.
"I kept yelling at him to put the knife down but he was still walking up to me and I kept saying put your knife down.
"Wayne had knife wounds to his arms and neck and his hands from trying to protect himself. If he (Kahn) had a gun I would be dead, I was very afraid for my life.”
When the police arrived Mr Khan attempted to allegedly stab an officer through the car window before he was pinned down by police and taken into custody.
Mr Greenhalgh was treated by paramedics at the scene before airlifting him to Liverpool Hospital in a serious condition.
He lost several fingers in the attack and suffered a punctured lung but after six hours of surgery now remains a stable condition.
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It has since emerged Khan was known to police but is not believed to have been on a terrorism watch list. He is belived to have been acting alone.
Deputy Commissioner Catherine Burn said it was possible that Mr Khan, who lived close to the scene of the stabbing, attacked the stranger in an.
Speaking at a press conference she said: "We will be alleging before court that this was an act that was inspired by ISIS, it was a deliberate act yesterday, it resulted in a person receiving extremely serious injuries.
"We will allege that he set out to do something yesterday, how long he had been planning this, we don't know."
"This is the new face of terrorism, this is the new face of what we deal with."
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