{"id":682693,"date":"2026-05-20T09:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/682693\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T09:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:39:08","slug":"brothers-of-bondi-hero-ahmed-al-ahmed-front-court-over-alleged-threatening-phone-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/682693\/","title":{"rendered":"Brothers of Bondi hero Ahmed Al Ahmed front court over alleged threatening phone call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Two brothers of Bondi hero Ahmed Al Ahmed have been ordered to stay away from him after they allegedly verbally threatened him over the phone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Officers from Bankstown Police Area Command started investigating on May 11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The two brothers were later arrested after attending Bankstown Police Station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Hozifa Al Ahmed and Sameh Al Ahmed were both charged with using carriage service to menace\/harass\/offend and granted conditional bail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Ahmed Al Ahmed became a household name when footage of the Bondi Beach terror attack in December showed him creeping up behind one of the gunmen and wrestling a long-barrelled firearm from them.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Three people standing with man in centre holding an oversized key\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au\/25dac8469018d8872dc55b750d4dc377?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&amp;cropH=3333&amp;cropW=5000&amp;xPos=0&amp;yPos=0&amp;width=862&amp;height=575\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Ahmed Al Ahmed was presented with the Canterbury-Bankstown keys to the city on January 26 for his heroism. (Supplied)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">He was shot multiple times after the altercation and required multiple surgeries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A fundraiser created to support the 43-year-old in the wake of the attack raised $2.6 million in donations from around the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The two men faced Bankstown Local Court on Wednesday and entered pleas of not guilty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">They were both issued with interim apprehended domestic violence orders to protect Mr Ahmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two brothers of Bondi hero Ahmed Al Ahmed have been ordered to stay away from him after they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[212040,192964,329188,194488,329189,39043,82112,43,44,4277,670,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-682693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-advo","tag-ahmed-al-ahmed","tag-bankstown-local-court","tag-bondi-hero","tag-conditional-bail","tag-domestic-violence","tag-harassment","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-nsw-police","tag-sydney","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682693","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=682693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}