Australia’s most wanted ISIS terrorist says he feels ‘repentant’ for joining the barbaric group

An Australian jihadi has confessed he regrets joining Islamic State after being locked up for more than two years in a maximum security prison in Turkey.

Standing before the Turkish court, Neil Prakash, 27, admitted he made an error in judgment to join the extremist group, The Herald Sun reports.

‘I feel regret for joining the Islamic State and for the time I spent with them. I feel repentant,’ Prakash said in court.

The Melbourne-born jihadi has spent two years and two months in a H-Type maximum-security prison in Gaziantep, Turkey.

Prakash is facing terrorism charges for being a member of a terrorist organisation committing crimes against the state of Turkey.

He faces up to seven-and-a-half to 15 years in prison if found guilty.

In July, the Australian government lost a bid to have Prakash extradited to face local terrorism charges.

The Muslim convert became radicalised at a Melbourne bookshop and moved to Syria in 2013.

He fought with the caliphate for three years before paying a people smuggler to take him to Turkey.

Yet he was caught crossing the Syrian border into Turkey and arrested by police after an Australian tip off in October 2016.

Police said at the time he was a senior member for Islamic State.

He was accused of being part of a terrorist organisation, involved in recruiting and financing a terror group and urging terror attacks.

Prakash’s next court appearance is on February 20.

Source: Daily Mail