One of two brothers shot by police at a Victorian campground threatened to behead officers and said he wanted to become a martyr.


Footage played to a Melbourne court shows 19-year-old Joel Clavell being shot while charging at police with an axe on June 12 last year.

His older brother, Joshua Clavell, was also shot after ramming a police car and running at officers with a knife at the Barnawartha North campground

Joel Clavell called police "dogs" and "mutts", said he wanted them to drop their guns so he could chop their heads off and become a martyr.

"You're in an outback area. This is not how you're going to be a martyr mate," one officer told him in body-worn camera footage released by the County Court of Victoria on Thursday.
"Your brother's already down.
"We don't want to shoot."

The men had been at the Barnawartha North camp for the holy Muslim month of Ramadan, Joel Clavell's lawyer Mel Walker said.


Joshua Clavell, 31, was wanted on a warrant for breaching a community correction order. Police spotted the brothers in a car at a nearby Barnawartha North service station and followed it.

Counter-terror officers were involved in the stand-off, but there was no evidence it was motivated by religious ideology.

"It doesn't need to be extremist in a terrorism sense for me to be concerned about retribution to police … animosity towards police," Judge Martine Marich said of the younger brother.

He will undergo a psychiatric assessment before the brothers return to court on June 15.

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Johnnie wrote on May 21^st, 2020 at 7:11pm:



It was June 12 last year.