The Bondi Beach gunmen spent most of their November trip to the Philippines in a small hotel in the city of Davao and barely left their room, local staff told the ABC.<\/p>\n
Earlier this week, immigration officials revealed the father\u2013son terror suspects, Naveed and Sajid Akram, travelled to the Philippines on November 1 and departed on November 28, just weeks before the attack.<\/p>\n
It was believed they travelled to Davao, the biggest city on the island of Mindanao, a region that has been challenged by Islamic extremism.<\/p>\n
Staff at the GV Hotel, right near Davao’s city hall, told the ABC the two gunmen stayed there for the entire time.<\/p>\n
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The GV Hotel is in downtown Davao, near the city hall and the police station.
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They said the room was booked on November 1, when the pair walked in.<\/p>\n
A copy of Naveed and Sajid Akram’s passports was not taken because it was not required to book a room at this hotel, the staff member said.<\/p>\n
The hotel is cash-only and staff said they did not have their copy of the receipt still on the premises.<\/p>\n
Staff said that CCTV had been seized by police but their system was on a seven-day loop, with vision from November already overwritten.<\/p>\n
Read more on the Bondi Beach shooting:Suspects only left hotel for a few hours a day, staff said<\/p>\n
Naveed and Sajid Akram spent most of their time in Davao inside the hotel, two staff members told the ABC.<\/p>\n
“The suspects did not leave the city as they were in their room the whole 27 days,” the hotel’s manager, Jenelyn, said.<\/p>\n
“The longest they left the hotel is between one to two hours.”<\/p>\n
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Staff said the Akrams only left the hotel for one to two hours a day. (ABC News: Haidarr Jones)<\/p>\n
She said she did not believe the pair ever left the city, because staff “saw them going in and out of the hotel every day”.<\/p>\n
Staff showed the ABC the hotel room that they said the alleged murderers stayed in.<\/p>\n
It was a simply furnished small room with two single beds, a TV and a basic bathroom.<\/p>\n
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Hotel staff said the pair stayed in room 315. (ABC News: Haidarr Jones)<\/p>\n
The room costs 930 pesos, or $24 per night.<\/p>\n
Whenever the pair went outside, staff noticed the father would always wear sunglasses, the manager said.<\/p>\n
“They didn’t look suspicious,” a staff member, Angelica, said.<\/p>\n
“They weren’t approachable, a lot of people who come here come and talk to me at the front desk, but they didn’t.”<\/p>\n
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Hotel staff member Angelica, 20, said the Akrams barely talked to her. (ABC News: Haidarr Jones)<\/p>\n
Staff recognised shooters in TikTok videos<\/p>\n
Angelica recounted finding out about the attack.<\/p>\n
“On Monday, my manager told me, ‘You remember Naveed Akram?’ And I said, ‘Yes, ma’am, why?’<\/p>\n
“‘They are wanted,’ she said.<\/p>\n
“I searched it on Google and TikTok \u2026 I recognised them.”<\/p>\n
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The hotel only accepts cash and no longer has the receipt from the gunmen’s stay. (ABC News: Haidarr Jones)<\/p>\n
Local media reported that the only items housekeeping staff found while the Akrams were staying there were “rubbish from fast food restaurants”.<\/p>\n
At one point, MindaNews reported, the son asked staff where he could buy a durian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bondi Beach gunmen spent most of their November trip to the Philippines in a small hotel in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[193873,194483,193223,194886,18610,43,62963,44,277,41,39,42,40,1236],"class_list":["post-355621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-bondi-beach-2026","tag-bondi-shooters","tag-bondi-terror-attack","tag-davao","tag-extremism","tag-headlines","tag-isis","tag-news","tag-philippines","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-training-camp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}