Neil Prakash: timeline to terrorism

NEIL PRAKASH: FROM MELBOURNE BUDDHIST TO IS FIGHTER AND RECRUITER

1991

* Neil Prakash is born in Melbourne, of Fijian and Cambodian descent. He was raised a Buddhist.

2012

* He converts to Islam and attends the controversial al-Furqan Islamic Centre in Melbourne.

2013

* Prakash leaves Australia to join the Islamic State in Syria. Takes the jihadi name Abu Khaled al-Cambodi and appears in IS propaganda videos. Recruits would-be terrorists in Australia.

2014

* His Australian passport is cancelled

2015

* Australian federal police issue a warrant for his arrest through Interpol

* Prakash is linked to a failed Melbourne plot to behead a police officer on Anzac Day 2015.

* Prakash publicly praises Numan Haider, the 18-year-old who was killed after stabbing two police officers outside a Melbourne police station in 2014

2016, April

* The US - incorrectly - announces Prakash has been killed in a drone strike

2016, October

* Prakash is captured by Turkish authorities trying to cross from Syria using false documents and imprisoned on terrorism-related charges

2018, July

* A Turkish court rejects Australia's application for his extradition. Prakash could now be freed from custody if the court determines he isn't under investigation for other crimes.