Bondi Beach, Sydney. Image: MDRX/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bondi accused hit with 19 fresh charges as terror case widens
SYDNEY, June 10, 2026 – The man accused over the Bondi Beach terror attack has been charged with another 19 offences, pushing one of Australia's most grave criminal prosecutions deeper into territory usually seen only after years of major crime briefs.
Naveed Akram, 24, was already before the courts on 59 charges tied to the December 14 shootings at Bondi Beach. On Wednesday, the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions confirmed the NSW Joint Counter Terrorism Team had laid 19 more charges.
The fresh counts take the case to 78 charges in all. They include 10 charges of shooting with intent to murder, further attempted murder allegations, and firearm offences that carry penalties of up to 25 years. Akram also remains charged with one count of committing a terrorist act and 15 counts of murder.
It is a brutal ledger. Prosecutors say the case concerns Akram's alleged role in the Bondi Beach shootings, which unfolded during a Jewish community gathering last December and left the country staring at one of the darkest public violence cases in its modern history.
The CDPP said two tranches of the evidence brief have already been served. The rest is due by August 12. That date matters because the scale of the material is now shaping the speed of the case: CCTV, devices, translations, police statements, forensic material and victim evidence all have to be locked down before the matter can move properly through the courts.
Akram has not entered pleas. He is entitled to the presumption of innocence.
The next court step is set for June 29, when suppression orders over victim identification material in the statement of facts and court attendance notices are due to be reviewed. Those orders are not a side issue. In a case with dozens of victims, wounded survivors and bereaved families, the court now has to balance open justice against the real risk of dragging private trauma into public view before trial.
The most telling part of Wednesday's update is not just the number of new charges. It is what the charge sheet now says about the investigation. Police and prosecutors are still building out the alleged sequence of violence, victim by victim and shot by shot, six months after the attack.
The Joint Counter Terrorism Team behind the prosecution includes NSW Police, the Australian Federal Police, ASIO and the NSW Crime Commission. The investigation is known as Operation Arques. The CDPP has said it will keep publishing updates because of the intense public interest in the case.
For Bondi, the court file is now doing what the beach cannot. It is holding the detail. It is naming the alleged offences one line at a time, while the suburb tries to return to ordinary life around a place that became, for a few minutes in December, a crime scene watched by the whole country.
Sources: Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions case update, June 10, 2026; News.com.au court report, June 10, 2026.