Hostages plotted to stab Sydney siege gunman

Two staff members of a Sydney cafe have revealed how they plotted to stab a gunman who held them hostage during a 16-hour siege in December.

Joel Herat, 21, and Jarrod Morton-Hoffman, 19, said in paid interviews broadcast yesterday by Nine Network television that they armed themselves with box cutters after gunman Man Horan Monis took them and 16 other people hostage in the Lindt Cafe in downtown Sydney.

“I’ve got this knife in my pocket and I know Joel has a knife in his pocket and we are so close, we can do this,” Morton-Hoffman said.