Alleged Bondi gunman Naveed Akram hit with fresh charges

Alleged Bondi terrorist Naveed Akram is set to be hit with fresh charges, including multiple counts of attempted murder, as he gets set to appear in a Sydney court on Wednesday.

Akram was previously charged with 59 offences, including terrorism, 15 counts of murder and 40 counts of attempted murder over his alleged role in the mass shooting at the Chanukah By The Sea event on December 14.

According to the courts, he is set to be charged with a further 19 counts consisting of 10 counts of shooting with intent to murder, three counts of cause wounding with intent to murder and six counts of discharging a firearm etc with intent to resist arrest.

Akram’s matter is due to be mentioned in the Downing Centre Local Court on Wednesday morning.

Akram’s father Sajid, 50, was shot dead by police during the attack, which police have alleged was inspired by ISIS.

Akram was shot in the abdomen and taken into hospital before he was charged and taken to Goulburn Supermax prison, where he remains on remand.

He has yet to enter any pleas to the charges.

The Bonnyrigg man was also charged with discharging a firearm intending to cause grievous bodily harm, cause public display of a prohibited terrorist symbol and placing an explosive near a building with intent to cause harm.

According to documents tendered to the court, it’s alleged that Akram and his father had three pipe bombs and a tennis ball bomb in their possession during the attack.

The bombs did not detonate and police have alleged the devices were thrown towards a group of people at Archer Park before the shooting began.

Akram and his father stayed at an Airbnb at Campsie, where they allegedly loaded weapons into a silver Hyundai Elantra before driving to Bondi.

The pair parked on Campbell Parade, where they removed the ISIS flags from the car and placed them on the inside of the front and rear windscreens, it’s alleged in court documents.

Two police officers were injured in the gunfight, including a probationary constable who has lost sight in one eye.

Police further allege that the father and son took part in firearms training at a NSW farm.

It’s alleged they filmed themselves firing shotguns and moving in a “tactical manner”.

Police allege the two men also filmed themselves in front of an image of an ISIS flag making statements regarding their motivation for the Bondi attack.

At the Campsie Airbnb, police allege they found a firearm scope, ammunition, a suspected IED, Sajid’s driver’s licence and hunting association membership card, 3D-printed parts for a shotgun speed loader, a rifle, a shotgun, firearm parts, bomb-making equipment, and two copies of the Koran.

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