A court has lifted an order concealing the identity of the man accused of throwing a bomb into a crowd at a Perth Invasion Day rally in an alleged act of terrorism. Police allege Liam Alexander Hall, 32, tossed what they described as a homemade “fragment bomb” filled with ball bearings and screws into the crowd in the heart of Perth’s CBD on January 26. Mr Hall is the first person in Western Australia’s history to be charged with a terrorism offence. WA’s Police Commissioner Col Blanch has said prosecutors will allege it “was a nationalist and racially motivated, attack … targeting members of the Aboriginal community, First Nations people”. (…) He said the medical report he had received “establishes a degree of vulnerability”, but that it had not considered what impact the release of his identity could have. The accused also had a father and two brothers, who also lived with disabilities in WA, who could be placed in a “difficult situation” if he was named, Mr Freitag said.
via abc: Liam Alexander Hall revealed as man charged over alleged terrorism act at Perth Invasion Day rally