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Loss. then he says that the soldier is a child killer and guilty of all sorts of different acts, very upset together families of these australian service members, enough to bring that to court. in another aspect he was charged with accessory to the killing of an ex-wife and also charged on sexual indecency act. you have a man who is clearly unstable and clearly with a tinge towards and he is lambis . the case was thrown out of court last friday over the letters

Gunfire and stun grenades exploding. in the midst of the chaos, hostages can be scene fleeing the cafe in groups. one man runs towards police with his hands in the air. an injured woman carried from the scene. when it is all over, paramedics rush in. at least three are dead, including the gunman. >> two deceased amongst the hostages and six that were uninjured. we also have a lone gunman who has been shot and killed. and we have a police officer who has been injured as a result of a gunshot woun...

Certainly someone is in grave danger just outside the cafe being treated at the moment and yet again more ambulances are leaving to head to the cafe to see what they can do. >> sean, its been interesting with the revelations of the identity of this man and his history of violence and we know he was before the courts only last week and hes on bail for being an accessory to the murder of his ex-wife. maybe that knowledge of the violence of the gunman was something that provoked them into action al...

This started to happen as we got more word about exactly who he is. hes a self-proclaimed sheik named man haron, called himself sheik haron and he claims to offer spiritual healing and is well known to police in sydney, he faced charges dating back to 2007 of sending offensive letters to the families of soldiers who had been killed in afghanistan and has been out on bail on a string of other charges of violent offenses, including being an accessory to the murder of his ex-wived and of sexual ass...

I want to thank anna for her live reporting on the scene. i want to talk a little bit more about what anna was illuding to and that is the man who perpetrated this horror. his bad behavior begins with hate mail and progresses all the way to sex crimes, accessory to murder. these allegations he was still facing at this time. we are live in london. you have been chasing down this rap sheet. >> as mentioned, he had pled guilty to sending a string of harassing letters to the families of usa australi...

Shia islam to sunni islam and became politically agitated. those letters you talked about he sent out a string of letters in 2009 to the families of soldiers killed in afghanistan, australian soldiers and these were really harassing letters. and he pled guilty to that and spent some time in jail during that trial and he claims as you can see in that poster there that he was tortured in prison. thats something that police have not commented to us about. but its clear he was very well-known to pol...

Of the situation identified the gunman as a self-styled muslim cleric. last year he pled guilty to writing offensive letters to the families of australian service members who were killed in action in iraq and afghanistan. he also faces charges of sexual assault and an accessory in the murder of his ex-wife. the hostage standoff in sydneys central business district was certainly shocking and unprecede unprecedented. anna corin has been on the scene for much of the standoff doing amazing work for ...

Sudden of in a country with strict gun control laws get a gun and able to take hostages? >> yes. of particular concern, he was out on bail, not only was he convicted of writing those awful letters back in 2009, but hes also facing a number of -- he was facing a number of charges in the courts. back in 2013 he was charge with being an accessory before and after the afact of the murder of his ex-wife. that case was before the courts and he was also most recently facing a number of sexual assault a...

Newtown and other places. here it directs them into a certain kind of activity. this guy was a religious fanatic, he was a shiia, hes obviously a psychopath, hes charged with accessory to the murder of his wife, stabbed 18 times and then burned. has all other -- a lot of other, including a lot of sexual assaults. so this is a guy on the edge of criminality, paranoid, hes got all the elements you would want to receive the script from isis. >> theres another component to the lone wolf attacker and...

On islamic law. last year, he was also charged with accessory to the murd murder of his former wife. most recently charged with sexual assault dating from 2002 when he was operating as a spiritual healer outside sydney. both charges he denies. on his website and social media, monis pledged allegiance to isis, but there is no indication so far that monis had any direct communication with isis leaders in syria or iraq. he had a number of twitter profiles, facebook pages, also a website, chicharon....