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Bourke Street attacker was having ‘hallucinations’ before stabbing rampage, wife tells inquest
The man who went on a stabbing spree in Melbourne’s Bourke Street in November 2018 was sweeping his home and car for listening devices in the lead-up to the attack, having “hallucinations”, and looking at radical Islamic content shared with him by his wife, an inquest has heard.
Key points:
- Beyza Eren tells a coronial inquest her husband, Hassan Khalif Shire Ali, thought people were listening to him before the attack
- Ms Eren says she sent him videos from Islamic extremists to try “get him into religion”
- Shire Ali’s brother-in-law told the court he believed the attack was not about terrorism, but due to a mental breakdown
Hassan Khalif Shire Ali drove his ute, carrying gas bottles, into the CBD and set fire to it before stabbing three people…
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