A court sketch depicts accused Bondi terrorist Naveed Akram appearing via video link at Downing Centre Local Court in Sydney, Feb. 16, 2026. (AAP Image\/Rocco Fazzari)<\/small><\/p>\n
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SYDNEY (AP) \u2014 The case against a man accused of murdering 15 people<\/a><\/span> at a Sydney Hanukkah celebration involved more than 800 witness statements and more evidence had yet to be examined, a prosecutor told a court Wednesday.<\/p>\n Naveed Akram, 25, appeared briefly in Sydney\u2019s Downing Centre Local Court on 78 charges related to the Dec. 14 massacre at Bondi Beach<\/a><\/span> that police allege was inspired by the Islamic State group<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n Prosecutor Danielle New outlined the large quantity of evidence that was still being compiled for the prosecution case.<\/p>\n The case was adjourned until Oct. 28, when prosecutors will update the court on their progress.<\/p>\n More than 800 witness statements had already been examined along with video, ballistic evidence and data from seven electronic devices, New said.<\/p>\n But data from another 12 electronic devices and an improvised explosive device testing report had yet to be reviewed, she said.<\/p>\n Akram and his 50-year-old father, Sajid Akram, allegedly began their attack by throwing four IEDs<\/a><\/span> toward a Jewish crowd, but the devices failed to explode.<\/p>\n Police described the devices as three aluminum pipe bombs and a tennis ball bomb containing an explosive, gunpowder and steel ball bearings. While none detonated, police described them as \u201cviable\u201d IEDs.<\/p>\n The father was killed in a gunbattle with police and the son was wounded.<\/p>\n Naveed Akram has not entered pleas to the charges that include murder, attempted murder and committing a terrorist act.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A court sketch depicts accused Bondi terrorist Naveed Akram appearing via video link at Downing Centre Local Court in Sydney, Feb. 16, 2026. (AAP Image\/Rocco Fazzari) 2026-08-12T04:35:28Z SYDNEY (AP) \u2014 The case against a man accused of murdering 15 people at a Sydney Hanukkah celebration involved more than 800 witness statements and more evidence had… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","neve_meta_reading_time":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uscnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uscnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uscnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uscnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uscnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uscnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uscnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uscnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uscnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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