Federation Square terror plotter Ali Khalif Shire Ali has sentence increased after prosecutors appeal

A man who planned to shoot revellers on New Year’s Eve in Melbourne’s Federation Square has had his jail sentence increased to 16 years by Victoria’s Court of Appeal.

In May, Ali Khalif Shire Ali was jailed for 10 years over the botched 2017 terror plan, which Court of Appeal justice Mark Weinberg said was intended to “inflict mass casualties on random members of the public”.

Justice Weinberg, along with justices Chris Maxwell and Stephen McLeigh…