Minister was warned about radicalised teen before police shooting
Tom RabeWA political correspondent
School parents wrote to Western Australia’s education minister raising concerns about a radicalised teenager who was later shot dead by police after stabbing that had “all the hallmarks” of a terror incident.
The 16-year-old who was killed on Saturday night in Perth had been part of a state-run deradicalisation program for two years, and had access only to a “very basic” mobile phone, Premier Roger Cook said on Monday.
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