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Georgie Moore

Alleged Vic extremist 'wrote to terrorist'

A Melbourne woman accused of assisting Islamic State actors wants to be released on bail. (AAP)

A woman charged with assisting Islamic State actors allegedly exchanged extremist jailhouse letters with a convicted terrorist.

The woman is alleged to have provided assistance to someone intending to fight with IS from the suburban Melbourne home that the-then 18-year-old shared with her parents in 2016.

She also allegedly attempted to communicate with with someone directing or promoting the terror group's activities the previous year while underage.

The woman, now 23, wants to be released on bail.

But prosecutors say she remains committed to extremist religious ideology, pointing to jailhouse letters exchanged with convicted terrorist Momena Shoma.

"I love you to infinity and beyond, I think about you all the time," one letter to Shoma said, Melbourne Magistrates Court was told on Wednesday.

Shoma was jailed in 2019 for at least 31 years for stabbing her Mill Park homestay host in a terror act.

Prosecutors said the woman told Shoma "I cried for you more than myself" when she learnt about the jail sentence.

"The day when Allah will be our judge .... (non-believers) better run," they said she also wrote.

The accused terror supporter's lawyer, Rishi Nathwani, sought a last-minute suppression order covering her links with Shoma. Magistrate Ross Maxted refused to issue the order.

One alternative charge of recruiting an IS fighter has been dropped.

But the woman faces an additional offence of failing to provide the passcode for an iPhone when her family home was raided in 2018, in relation to an overseas terror arrest.

She will remain in custody until her bail application continues on March 1.

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