A judge at the New South Wales Supreme Court in Australia on Friday overturned a decision by a lower court that viral footage of two former Sydney nurses vowing to “kill Israelis” is inadmissible as evidence in their trial.

Sarah Abu Lebdeh, 27, and Ahmad Rashad Nadir, 28, became the focus of international attention after a video circulated online last year in which they threatened Israeli patients while employed at Bankstown Hospital in Sydney.

Following a two-day court hearing last month, Judge Michael McHugh at the NSW District Court ruled that the video must be excluded from both trials because it was recorded without the nurses’ consent. Under New South Wales law, recording a private conversation without the consent of those involved is generally prohibited.

The Commonwealth Department of Public Prosecutions appealed the decision, and on Friday, the NSW Supreme Court overturned the ruling, finding that unedited audiovisual evidence was admissible and could be used at trial.

The court’s reasoning will be published at a later date.

The nurses are due to stand trial at the end of August.

(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)