Born: 1998;

Place of Birth: Australia;

Gender: Male;

Nationality: Australian;

General Info:
Bourhan Hraichie is a Islamic State supporter who is jailed for planning terrorist acts in a plot to shoot police officers and a threat to behead the Corrective Services NSW commissioner Peter Severin.

Hraichie also kept his cousin Sameh Bayda hogtied with strips of bed sheet for about half an hour in Goulburn Supermax in May 2017, lashing him with a cable about 30 times.

The shocking attempted murder landed him in Australia‘s highest security prison, Goulburn’s SuperMax. Bourhan then threatened to behead the boss of the state prison authority.

He became violent jihadist who carved Islamic State slogans into a prison cellmate’s head was once a ‘typical Aussie teen’ who made his family laugh and dreamed of becoming an electrician.

Hraichie was offended when Bayda bragged about not performing morning prayers, and punched him in the jaw.

Hraichie told the court Bayda agreed to go along with the Ruqyah – a form of exorcism – after some persuasion. He also claimed he was holding the blade to Bayda’s rat’s tail.

The 22-year-old said the exorcism procedure often resulted in a “jinn”, or devil, exiting the possessed person and it was “very visible” when this occurred. He eventually realised Bayda was not possessed.

Hraichie represented himself and pleaded guilty to detaining a person with intent to obtain an advantage and common assault part-way through a judge-alone trial. He entered his pleas only after he had cross-examined Bayda for four days and admitted he always intended to plead guilty.

Hraichie’s previous sentences include a 34-year term imposed last year for carving an Islamic State-inspired message into another inmate’s forehead. His father, Ahmad, says his son was ‘brainwashed’ by these extremists and is calling for a royal commission into the widespread radicalisation of prisoners.

Hraichie was sentenced to 34 years’ imprisonment with a non parole period of 29 years. He will be 50 when he is eligible for parole. He reportedly cheered and repeatedly interrupted the judge as the sentence was handed down on Friday.