With the prospect of parole still some years away, Kailee Mitz did her best to settle into life in an Australian prison and it was the last place she expected to be a victim of the crumbling Islamic State.
In October 2020, the Canadian was awaiting sentencing for her part in a plot to smuggle more than 15 kilograms of methamphetamines into Australia.
She was at Melbourne's Dame Phyllis Frost Centre when she was ambushed by Momena Shoma — a convicted Islamic militant — who tried to kill her with a pair of gardening shears that had been secreted in her headscarf.
Up until that point, Shoma — who was already serving a 42-year sentence over a terror-related stabbing — appeared to show little interest in her victim.