A British teenager has been charged with inciting a beheading in Australia in a case linked to an alleged terror plot targeting Anzac Day services in Melbourne.
The 14-year-old boy, who's been charged with two offences of inciting terrorism overseas, is due to appear in a central London court on Friday.
It's alleged that between March 15 and March 26 the teenager incited someone to carry out an attack at an Anzac parade in Australia with the aim of killing them or causing serious injury, UK prosecutors said on Thursday evening (Friday morning AEST).
It is also alleged that on March 18 the boy incited a person to behead a victim in Australia.
The teenager, from north-western England, was first arrested on April 2 but then detained again on Saturday after officers examined "devices" and allegedly uncovered communications with a man in Australia.
The communications, UK police believed, "indicated a potential credible terrorist attack in Australia".
Australian police were contacted and five young men were arrested in Melbourne in a series of pre-dawn raids also on Saturday.
Two Melbourne 18-year-olds have since been charged with conspiring to commit a terrorist act over the alleged Islamic State-inspired plot to target Anzac Day services.
Another 18-year-old, also from Melbourne, has been charged with weapons offences.
The planned attack involved running over a police officer and killing him with a knife before stealing his gun and using it to shoot others, the ABC quoted a security official as saying.
Huge crowds are expected to flock to Melbourne's CBD on Saturday for the dawn service and march marking the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli landing.
Security will be tight but the public should not be deterred from attending, Victoria Police has said.
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