A remorseful young woman broke down in court before she narrowly escaped conviction over her involvement in an ugly late night altercation which left another patron bleeding at a swanky Melbourne bar.
Monica Neskovski, 25, pleaded guilty to throwing a metal jug causing injury when she appeared in Melbourne Magistrates Court on Wednesday.
She was out on a night on the town with her mother and several friends on September 30 2019 when they enjoyed a few drinks at The George on Collins in Melbourne s CBD.
The court heard the gathering became embroiled in an altercation with another group of revellers over a photo taken inside the bar.
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Investigators believe the incidents may have been motivated by Islamic religious extremism .
Assistant Commissioner Scott Lee of the Australian Federal Police s counter-terrorism and special investigations unit said the nature of fire, in particular, had stoked their suspicions. There is an ideology, and a violent extremist ideology, that has caused us concern, and it s as a result of that ideology that we re looking at these incidents being connected to a terrorism motivation, he told reporters on Wednesday. There are certain aspects to the lighting of the fire that leads us to suspect it was a terrorism motivation.
With all three suspects aged 20 or under, Mr Lee said counter-terrorism teams across the globe were encountering a younger and younger demographic, with the COVID-19 pandemic pushing more kids online and exacerbating the problem.
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