The body of a radicalised Melbourne teen who prayed five times a day was rejected by three mosques because they feared media and police attention, an inquest has heard.
Numan Haider, 18, had been under police surveillance for four months when he was shot in the head after attacking a Victoria Police officer and an Australian Federal Police officer on September 23, 2014, the coroner heard.
Victorian Coroner John Olle has been told Haider was a deeply religious Muslim who was considered funny and kind by his friends.
His parents were concerned he seemed to be losing interest in his studies, but had no notion he was becoming radicalised.
Khalilur-Rahman Hamid, the former imam at the mosque Haider frequented, told the inquest he saw Haider's father before the teen was shot, and he said Haider had been very angry about police searching his room.
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Police had been to Haider's house before officers arranged to meet the teen at the Endeavour Hills police station, the court heard.
It was there Haider stabbed one officer in the arm and another in the face before being shot as he attempted to stab the second officer in the stomach, the inquest has heard.
Mr Hamid said after the shooting, Haider's family approached him about the body being washed.
The first two mosques he approached said they did not want to accept Haider because his was a high profile body, he said.
The third mosque suggested the body be washed at night and then taken back to the family home.
"They feared the media, they feared the police," Mr Hamid said.
It is one of the principals and core rights of Islam that a dead person be respected, Mr Hamid told the court.
The inquest also heard Haider tried to call a friend three minutes before he died, but the friend says he doesn't remember the call.
Habib Paygham, 18, told the inquest that the Facetime call Haider placed, then cancelled, before he died, may have been a mistake.
Counsel assisting the inquest Rachel Ellyard said the second-last thing Haider did with his phone was make and then cancel a Facetime conversation with Mr Paygham.
Mr Paygham said he didn't remember it, and when pressed, said Ms Ellyard's question was the first he had heard of the video call.
"I don't remember," Mr Paygham said.
He went on to say that Haider may have dialled him by "accident" and that he and Haider never communicated via Facetime.
The inquest continues.
