Accused Bondi gunman moved, as bombshell allegations emerge
Source: NSW Local Court
Accused Bondi gunman Naveed Akram has reportedly been moved from hospital to a correctional facility.
The ABC reports that 24-year-old Akram was moved on Monday.
It came as bombshell details emerged in court over the terrorist shooting at Bondi Beach, for which Akram faces 59 charges including 15 counts of murder and one count of committing a terrorist act over the attack.
His father Sajid was shot dead by police in last Sunday’s incident.
NSW Police allege the pair threw several shrapnel-filled bombs into a Jewish crowd celebrating Hanukkah in a failed attempt to claim more lives in their minutes-long, antisemitic massacre.
Police allegations about the Islamic-State-inspired shooters’ flawed bombs, training in a regional area, arsenal of weaponry left behind and reconnaissance to the massacre site in the days before the December 14 attack were released by a court on Monday.
The Akrams are accused of carrying out Australia’s worst mass shooting since 1996 by targeting the Jewish festival of lights at Bondi Beach.
Images tendered by police in Naveed’s case allegedly show the Akrams at a short-term rental home they used as a staging post for their attack.

Sajid and Naveed Akram apparently training in the NSW countryside. Photos: NSW Local Court
CCTV footage shows the men carrying long and bulky items wrapped in blankets and loading them into the younger man’s 24-year-old silver Hyundai Elantra early on December 14.
Under the blankets were two single-barrel shotguns, a Beretta rifle, five homemade bombs and two ISIS flags, police allege.
The men travelled from the suburb of Campsie, in Sydney’s south-west, to Bondi Beach after 5pm.
After parking near a footbridge on Campbell Parade, the men tossed three pipe bombs filled with steel ball bearings and a “tennis ball bomb” into the Hannukah celebration at Archer Park before opening fire.
But none of the pipe bombs detonated, despite preliminary police analysis finding they were “viable”.
No further detail about the tennis ball bomb was provided.
A box-like bomb was found in the boot of the car while two hand-painted ISIS flags were also found in the car.

NSW Police say an ISIS flag was found in the vehicle the men drove to Bondi Beach. Photo: NSW Local Court
Police found further weaponry and explosive devices in the Campsie rental, including a 3D-printed shotgun speed loader, a firearm scope, two more guns and another suspected bomb.
They allege the men left behind videos that indicated their adherence to religiously motivated violent extremism.
Footage recorded in late October – six to eight weeks before the attack – showed each Akram training with long-arm guns and “moving in a tactical manner” in a countryside location.
Police suspect the area was in NSW.
“The [younger Akram] is recorded appearing to recite, in Arabic, a passage from the Quran,” the facts sheet states.
“Following the recitation, both the accused and S.AKRAM speak in English and make a number of statement sregarding their motivation for the ‘Bondi attack’ and condemning the acts of ‘Zionists’.(sic)”

A home-made bomb was also allegedly found in the men’s car. Photo: NSW Local Court
Further footage captured by security cameras at Bondi Beach appears to show the Akrams scoped out the area about 48 hours before their attack.
“There is evidence that the accused and his father … meticulously planned this terrorist attack for many months,” the facts sheet says.
As well as releasing the police allegations, Deputy Chief Magistrate Michael Antrum on Monday suppressed the identities of 25 survivors, to protect their privacy and assist their recovery.
The court order allows victim-survivors to choose if and when they go public with their story, and join other survivors such as Arsen Ostrovsky and hero tobacconist Ahmed Al Ahmed.
Akram remains in custody. His case is next due in court in April.
-AAP
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