Bondi Terror Accused Formally Hit With 19 New Charges
Sydney, June 10, 2026 – The court file from Australia’s worst mass shooting in decades grew heavier on Wednesday, with prosecutors formally filing 19 fresh charges against 24-year-old Naveed Akram over the Bondi Beach terror attack.
The new court attendance notices take the total number of charges against Akram to 78. They include 10 counts of shooting with intent to murder and six counts of discharging a firearm with intent to resist arrest, according to reporting from the Downing Centre Local Court.
Akram and his father, 50-year-old Sajid Akram, are alleged to have opened fire at a Hanukah festival at Bondi Beach on December 14, 2025, killing 15 people. Sajid Akram was shot dead by police at the scene. Naveed Akram survived the shootout and was charged in December with 59 offences, including 15 counts of murder and one count of committing a terrorist act. Investigators have alleged the attack may have been inspired by Islamic State.
Wednesday’s filing matters because it moves the case from the grim shock of the massacre into the long machinery of prosecution. The scale is vast. Prosecutors told the court they are still working through about 230,000 CCTV images, along with a number of devices linked to people said to be connected to the accused. Some of that material needs translation.
The court set August 12 as the new date for the brief of evidence. That delay is not a footnote. It shows the size of the case investigators are trying to stitch together: the beach, the crowd, the weapons, the alleged planning, the victims, the officers who fired back, and the digital trail around the accused.
An interim suppression order remains over the identities of several victims and complainants named in the fresh charges, including police officers. Akram has not entered pleas to the charges.
The Bondi attack tore through a public religious gathering in one of Australia’s most recognisable places. Six months later, the court process is still widening. The new charges do not answer every question about how the attack happened, or whether warning signs were missed, but they sharpen the allegations against the surviving accused gunman and push the prosecution into its next hard phase.
Sources: The Guardian Australia live coverage from June 10, 2026; Associated Press background reporting; Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions public case information.