As the NSW Supreme Court terror retrial continued against accused Mustafa Dirani on Thursday, crown prosecutor David Staehli SC said the Smith & Wesson gun used to murder Mr Cheng in 2015 was never registered in Australia. "After the gun left the factory in 1942, nothing was heard of it until it regrettably turned up ... in the hands of Mr Farhad after he shot Mr Cheng," Mr Staehli said. Mr Cheng was shot in the back of the head by Farhad who had walked to NSW Police Headquarters from the mosque. "Mr Dirani's position in this trial is that he was not a party to the conspiracy and he had not agreed to it," Mr Steel told the jury. "It is the defence case that this is the likely time that the firearm was supplied," Mr Steel said.
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