Man charged and refused bail after filming ISIS beheading

A 27-year-old man has been refused bail after threatening to behead people in a Queensland shopping mall.

Che Hermans was charged with three counts of using a carriage service to make a threat to kill and one count of threatening violence at night after filming himself brandishing a knife to his throat outside the Mountview Shopping Centre on March 25.

Hermans was refused bail at the Ipswich Magistrates Court on Wednesday, with police prosecutor Nanette Green alleging he sent the video to his parents showing him holding a knife to his throat outside the shopping centre, quoting the horrifying statements he made on camera.

“This is a warning by ISIS,” Hermans said in the video.

“ISIS is going to create a beheading within the next week – a civilian within this very local shopping centre.

“I’ve been told I’ve been allocated to cut someone’s head off, so if you do not reach out within the next two days, I will disfigure a human head off their body.”

According to the Courier Mail, it was also alleged Hermans entered his mother’s home at 3am on the same day and shouted threats of beheading and that he would “gut her like a pig”.

Senior Constable Green said the prosecution was not just concerned about his mother’s safety, but the safety of the wider community.

Defence lawyer Yassar Khan said police had searched his clients home the next day but found no indication of radicalisation or evidence that pointed to ISIS affiliation.

“(The allegations) would, in my submission, be born out of a potential psychotic episode, as opposed to any real (terrorist) threat,” Mr Khan said.

“(Mr Hermans) is incredibly remorseful for the position he placed his mother in … It’s not lost on him, the seriousness of this conduct, at all.”

Mr Khan said Hermans was diagnosed with cannabinoid psychotic disorder and could be eligible for an unsoundness of the mind defence which designated a person is not criminally responsible for an act or omission on account of their insanity.

Magistrate Robert Walker said the allegations were “serious and disturbing” but acknowledged police had not found evidence of any links to terrorism, but maintained the risk remained “real”.

“The management of that risk is entirely dependent on (Mr Hermans) complying with a treatment regimen,” Mr Walker said.

The matter is set to resume on May 31 for a committal mention.

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