{"id":218815,"date":"2026-01-06T01:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T01:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/218815\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T01:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T01:49:09","slug":"bondi-gunman-moved-to-notorious-supermax-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/218815\/","title":{"rendered":"Bondi gunman moved to notorious supermax prison"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bondi shooter Naveed Akram has been moved to a notorious jail reserved for the state’s worst criminals.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old accused mass killer was transferred from Long Bay jail in Sydney to the Goulburn Correctional Centre, a supermaximum security prison, about 200km south of the city, on Monday.<\/p>\n

Corrective Services NSW said the facility is “the most secure prison in the state and is equipped to accommodate inmates who pose the highest levels of risk”.<\/p>\n

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The Goulburn Correctional Centre, about 200km south of Sydney. (Source: Google Streetview)<\/p>\n

Akram faces 59 charges, including 15 counts of murder, over the shootings at Bondi Beach on December 14<\/a> where 15 victims were killed in anti-Semitic terror attack inspired by Islamic State<\/p>\n

He was shot by police at the scene and spent days in a coma before being charged. <\/p>\n

His father, Sajid Akram, 50, was shot dead by police.<\/p>\n

Akram, who reportedly trained shooting guns with his father on a farm near Goulburn in photos recovered by police, is also charged with one count of committing a terrorist act.<\/p>\n

He will next face court on April 8.<\/p>\n

Australian Federal Police Commissioner Krissy Barrett said the gunmen allegedly acted alone<\/a> based on intelligence gathered in collaboration with their Filipino counterparts.<\/p>\n

The pair arrived in the Philippines on November 1 before travelling on to Davao City and returning to Sydney on November 29, two weeks before the mass shooting.<\/p>\n

The commissioner noted an initial assessment found there was no evidence to suggest they received training or underwent logistical preparation with extremist Islamist terrorist groups.<\/p>\n

The gunman’s transfer comes as NSW Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon is expected to decide on Tuesday whether to use his controversial powers to restrict public assemblies for another fortnight.<\/p>\n

Laws rushed through state parliament in the aftermath of the deadly mass shooting grant the commissioner the ability to ban protests in key metropolitan areas following a declared terrorist incident for up to three months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bondi shooter Naveed Akram has been moved to a notorious jail reserved for the state’s worst criminals. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[85,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-218815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-australia","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}