Alqudsi trial: Dead Jihadi's Syrian sortie filled with misery

A Sydney bouncer and acting extra who became Australia's most senior member of ISIL before coming to a bloody end in Syria had an emotional rise to the top, a court has heard.

Recordings of conversations between Mohammad Ali Baryalei, who is believed to have been "martyred" two years ago, and ISIL recruiter Hamdi Alqudsi, were played to the NSW Supreme Court during the latter's recent trial.

In one call made in 2013, Baryalei breaks down in an apparent fit of existential despair over the apocalyptic proportions of the conflict in the Middle East.

"I don't wanna be here man. I'm over it," Baryalei told Alqudisi.

"I'm over it," he repeated in a wavering voice, the tears starting to flow. "Why would you want to live this rubbish? Why would you want to live this rubbish for?

"I don't know bro, it's the end, you know how they say, end of the world, bro, it's the end of the world."

Alqudisi was found guilty of aiding seven men to fight in Syria earlier this week. The disability pensioner faces a decade in jail over the coviction, though his lawyer says that he will "always maintain his innocence".

Two of his recruits, Tyler Casey and Caner Temel, met the same fate as Alqudisi's old mate Baryalei, perishing in Syria.

Baryalei, who played a bit-part in the Underbelly TV series, is thought to have died in October 2014.