Suspect ‘discussed packing kangaroo with explosives’ in Melbourne

A teenage terror suspect and a 15-year-old British boy discussed packing a kangaroo with explosives then setting it loose on Australian police officers, a court has heard.

Melbourne Magistrates Court ordered Sevdet Ramadan Besim, 19, to stand trial in the Victoria state supreme court accused of planning an Islamic State-inspired terrorist attack at an Anzac Day ceremony last year that included targeting police officers.

Besim pleaded not guilty to four charges relating to a plot to attack commemorative services in Melbourne or the neighbouring city of Dandenong to mark Anzac Day, the annual April 25 commemoration of the 1915 Gallipoli landings in Turkey.