Bondi gunman moved to notorious supermax prison
Bondi hitman Naveed Akram has been moved to a notorious prison reserved for the state’s worst criminals.
The 24-year-old mass murder suspect was transferred from Sydney’s Long Bay prison on Monday to Goulburn Prison, Goulburn, a maximum security prison located about 200km south of the city.
Corrective Services NSW said the facility was “the safest prison in the state and is equipped to house the highest risk inmates”.
Akram faces 59 charges, including 15 murders, in connection with the shootings that killed 15 victims of the Islamic State-inspired anti-Semitic terror attack at Bondi Beach on December 14
He was shot by police at the scene and remained in a coma for days before being charged.
His father, Sajid Akram, 50, was shot dead by the police.
It is stated that Akram, who was reportedly giving firearms training with his father on a farm near Goulburn in the photographs seized by the police, was also accused of committing a terrorist act.
He will appear in court again on April 8.
Australian Federal Police Commissioner Krissy Barrett said the gunmen were alleged to have acted alone, based on intelligence gathered in collaboration with their Filipino counterparts.
The couple is known to have arrived in the Philippines on November 1, then traveled to Davao City and returned to Sydney on November 29, two weeks before the mass shooting.
The Commissioner noted that in the initial assessment, it was determined that there was no evidence that these people had trained with extreme Islamist terrorist groups or made logistical preparations.
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 gatherings for another two weeks.
The legislation, rushed through the state legislature in the wake of the deadly mass shooting, gives the commissioner the authority to ban protests in major metropolitan areas for up to three months following a declared terrorist incident.
