{"id":365287,"date":"2025-12-22T21:15:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T21:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/365287\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T21:15:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T21:15:12","slug":"videos-and-cctv-give-fresh-insight-into-gunmens-plot-to-target-bondi-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/365287\/","title":{"rendered":"Videos and CCTV give fresh insight into gunmen’s plot to target Bondi Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police are beginning to piece together the movements of the Bondi Beach gunmen in the lead-up to the massacre that killed 15 people and injured a further 40.<\/p>\n

In court documents made public on Monday, the NSW Police Force’s statement of facts shed new light on the hours, days, weeks and months before Sajid and Naveed Akram launched a gun attack targeting families on the first night of Hanukkah on December 14.<\/p>\n

Sajid Akram was killed by police at Bondi, while his 24-year-old son Naveed Akram faces 59 charges, including 15 counts of murder and one count of committing a terrorist act.<\/p>\n

Much remains unknown about the incident, but police say there is evidence to suggest the gunmen spent months plotting the attack.<\/p>\n

October 2025\"Man<\/p>\n

Naveed Akram firing during firearms training in late October 2025. (Supplied: NSW Local Court)<\/p>\n

Videos found on Naveed Akram’s phone show him and his father conducting shooting practice in late October at a location police suspect to be somewhere in regional New South Wales.<\/p>\n

In another video from the same time, the pair were seen sitting in front of an image of an Islamic State (IS) flag.<\/p>\n

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Sajid Akram firing firearms in what investigators believe to be regional NSW. (Supplied: NSW Local Court)<\/p>\n

In one recording, police say, the pair make a number of statements explaining their motivations for the “Bondi attack” and condemning the actions of “Zionists”.<\/p>\n

“In this video, the accused and [his father] recite their political and religious views and appear to summarise their justification for the Bondi terrorist attack,” the police document released by the court said.<\/p>\n

Separately, authorities in the Philippines have confirmed Sajid Akram, 50, and his son went to Davao on the island of Mindanao for almost a month in November<\/a>.<\/p>\n

December 2025<\/p>\n

One of the properties that has been subject to police investigation has been a home in Campsie, in Sydney’s south-west.<\/p>\n

The police document said Naveed Akram reserved a room in the five-bedroom house back in October for three weeks between December 2 and 21.<\/p>\n

Police believe the father and son occupied “room two” in the house.<\/p>\n

Read more on the Bondi Beach shooting:<\/p>\n

When investigators forced entry after the attack, they found gun paraphernalia, ammunition, a suspected improvised explosive device (IED), bomb-making equipment and two copies of the Koran.<\/p>\n

Speaking to police after the attack, Naveed Akram’s mother said she believed the 24-year-old and his father were away on holiday in southern NSW.<\/p>\n

She told authorities the pair left a week before the attack, and she would receive daily calls from her son in that time.<\/p>\n

Two days before the attack\"Car<\/p>\n

The gunmen’s car was caught on CCTV at Bondi two days before the attack. (Supplied: NSW Local Court)<\/p>\n

On December 12, just two days before the attack, two men believed to be Sajid and Naveed Akram were pictured on security camera footage from Campbell Parade in Bondi.<\/p>\n

They could be seen entering the Archer Park car park at 9:30pm before walking along the same footbridge where they would commence the attack less than 48 hours later.<\/p>\n

\"Image<\/p>\n

Naveed and Sajid Akram are seen on the bridge at Bondi Beach two days before the attack. (Supplied: NSW Local Court)<\/p>\n

The day of the attack\"Two<\/p>\n

Police will allege CCTV captured the Bondi Beach gunmen carrying concealed firearms out of their Campsie property. (Supplied: NSW Local Court)<\/p>\n

At the Campsie property, CCTV captures the gunmen leaving the house and walking down the driveway shortly after 2am on the morning of the attack.<\/p>\n

Both men are shown carrying “long and bulky items wrapped in blankets” into a 2001 silver Hyundai Elantra, according to court documents.<\/p>\n

\"CCTV<\/p>\n

Naveed and Sajid Akram walk outside their Campsie home with bulky items that police say are guns. (Supplied: NSW Local Court)<\/p>\n

“Police allege the bulky items loaded into the vehicle were two single-barrel shotguns, a Beretta rifle, four home-made improvised explosive devices \u2026 and two Islamic State (IS) flags,” the court documents state.<\/p>\n

Dressed in black T-shirts, the pair were again seen leaving the Campsie property and getting into the silver vehicle just after 5pm.<\/p>\n

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Sajid Akram at the home he rented before the Bondi Beach attack. (Supplied: NSW Local Court)<\/p>\n

The car is picked up on CCTV again at 5:57pm travelling east on Oxford Street, Centennial Park, towards Bondi.<\/p>\n

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The gunmen drive at Centennial Park en route to Bondi Beach. (Supplied: NSW Local Court)<\/p>\n

About one minute later, the silver car can be seen on Ocean Street, Woollahra.<\/p>\n

Here the car remains stopped until about 6:17pm and, while the vehicle is parked, police will allege the pair took turns getting in and out of the car and inspecting the back seats.<\/p>\n

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Sajid Akram is seen outside the car on Ocean Road in Woollahra. (Supplied: NSW Local Court)<\/p>\n

Finally, the car turns around onto Syd Einfeld Drive in Bondi Junction.<\/p>\n

At 6:25pm, the silver car is again captured on Old South Head Road in North Bondi, travelling towards Bondi Beach.<\/p>\n

The car comes to a stop at Campbell Parade, near the Archer Park footbridge, at about 6:50pm.<\/p>\n

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The Bondi gunmen’s car is parked at Bondi Beach. (Supplied: NSW Local Court)<\/p>\n

Once parked, police will allege the pair removed both IS flags from the car and placed them on the front and rear windscreens.<\/p>\n

The gunmen removed three firearms and a number of makeshift explosives from the car and approached the footbridge.<\/p>\n

\"Homemade<\/p>\n

A homemade Islamic State flag sits in the back of the car driven by the Bondi gunmen. (Supplied: NSW Local Court)<\/p>\n

The IEDs were thrown first into the crowd at Archer Park but they did not detonate.<\/p>\n

\"Metal<\/p>\n

Police images of homemade pipe bombs at the scene. (Supplied: NSW Local Court)<\/p>\n

The shooting attack began shortly after, with 14 people killed at the scene and another dying from their injuries in hospital.<\/p>\n

\"Men<\/p>\n

Naveed and Sajid Akram during the attack. (SUpplied: NSW Local Court)<\/p>\n

Forty people were injured, including two NSW Police officers.<\/p>\n

Another explosive device was later found by police in the boot of the car.<\/p>\n

\"Box<\/p>\n

An IED sits in the boot of the car driven by the gunmen to Bondi Beach. (Supplied: NSW Local Court)<\/p>\n

After almost a week under police guard in a Sydney hospital, Naveed Akram has now been transferred to a correctional facility.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old’s matter is due to be heard in court again in February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are beginning to piece together the movements of the Bondi Beach gunmen in the lead-up to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[64,63,27931,99,198432,37958,1108,186,192986,4634,198433,192985,157633,193039,2733,4277,184,185,1158,196828,198431,670,120749,67249],"class_list":["post-365287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bondi","tag-business","tag-campsie","tag-cctv","tag-court","tag-finance","tag-gunmen","tag-guns","tag-how-did-the-bondi-attack-happen","tag-massacre","tag-movements","tag-naveed-akram","tag-nsw","tag-nsw-police","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-police","tag-regional-nsw","tag-sequence-of-events","tag-sydney","tag-terror-attack","tag-timeline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365287","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=365287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}