The men who plotted terror attacks on Anzac Day have had their sentences extended on appeal

Two young Melbourne men who pleaded guilty to separate terror-related offences will spend more time behind bars, after the Court of Appeal agreed that the sentences were too lenient.

The Court of Appeal handed down its rulings on Friday to challenges by Commonwealth prosecutors against sentences imposed last year on Sevdet Besim​, who planned to behead a police officer at an Anzac Day service in 2015, and on a teenager known as MHK who built a bomb and planned to detonate it on Mother’s Day the same year.

Besim, 20, was jailed for a further four years, with an extra two and a half years added to his minimum sentence. He is sentenced to 14 years, with a 10 year and six month minimum.

The teenager MHK was jailed for an extra four years, with three years and three months added to his non-parole period. He was sentenced to 11 years with a non-parole period of eight years and three months.

Source: Anzac, Mother’s Day terror plotters to spend more time behind bars