{"id":715327,"date":"2026-06-04T19:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T19:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/715327\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T19:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T19:06:10","slug":"bondi-attack-hero-ahmed-al-ahmed-charged-with-assaulting-his-father-bondi-beach-terror-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/715327\/","title":{"rendered":"Bondi attack hero Ahmed al-Ahmed charged with assaulting his father | Bondi beach terror attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Sydney man who disarmed one of the Bondi terror attackers has been charged with assaulting his father.<\/p>\n

Ahmed al-Ahmed, 44, is accused of allegedly putting his father in a headlock on 9 March at a house in Bankstown, in the city\u2019s west.<\/p>\n

He was charged on Wednesday with common assault and \u201cstalk or intimidate\u201d, NSW police confirmed.<\/p>\n

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Shortly after the Bondi attack, footage of Ahmed tackling and disarming Sajid Akram emerged, with the tobacconist hailed as a hero<\/a> for saving lives.<\/p>\n

He was shot multiple times during the incident. His efforts garnered worldwide attention, and a fundraiser reaching more than $3m.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy target was just to take the gun from him, and to stop him from killing a human being\u2019s life and not killing innocent people,\u201d Ahmed said in an interview after the attack.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know I saved lots, but I feel sorry for the lost.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"PrimePrime minister meets the \u2018Australian hero\u2019 Ahmed al-Ahmed in hospital \u2013 video<\/p>\n

Akram was shot dead by police during the attack on a Hanukah event where 15 people were killed. His son, Naveed Akram, was wounded by police, and he was later charged with 59 offences.<\/p>\n

Ahmed was awarded with Keys to the City of Canterbury-Bankstown, where he lives, and Waverley. Earlier this year, a sold-out SCG crowd roared as he walked onto the pitch just before play began on the final Test of the Ashes series.<\/p>\n

He was visited in hospital by prime minister Anthony Albanese and NSW premier Chris Minns as he recovered from his injuries.<\/p>\n

He is due to appear in Bankstown local court on 29 July.<\/p>\n

– Australian Associated Press contributed to this report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sydney man who disarmed one of the Bondi terror attackers has been charged with assaulting his father.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-715327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715327","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=715327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}