By Phoebe Pin, ABC
Naveed Akram is seen walking down the driveway of a rented Campsie home about 90 minutes before the Bondi Beach attack. Photo: ABC / NSW Local Court
Police are beginning to piece together the movements of the Bondi Beach gunmen in the lead-up to the massacre that killed 15 people and injured a further 40.
In court documents made public on Monday, the NSW Police Force's statement of facts shed new light on the hours, days, weeks and months before Sajid and Naveed Akram launched a gun attack targeting families on the first night of Hanukkah on 14 December.
Sajid Akram was killed by police at Bondi, while his 24-year-old son Naveed Akram faces 59 charges, including 15 counts of murder and one count of committing a terrorist act.
Much remains unknown about the incident, but police say there is evidence to suggest the gunmen spent months plotting the attack.
October 2025
Naveed Akram firing during firearms training in late October 2025. Photo: ABC / NSW Local Court
Videos found on Naveed Akram's phone show him and his father conducting shooting practice in late October at a location police suspect to be somewhere in regional New South Wales.
In another video from the same time, the pair were seen sitting in front of an image of an Islamic State (IS) flag.
Sajid Akram firing firearms in what investigators believe to be regional NSW. Photo: ABC / NSW Local Court
In one recording, police say, the pair make a number of statements explaining their motivations for the "Bondi attack" and condemning the actions of "Zionists".
"In this video, the accused and [his father] recite their political and religious views and appear to summarise their justification for the Bondi terrorist attack," the police document released by the court said.
Separately, authorities in the Philippines have confirmed Sajid Akram, 50, and his son went to Davao on the island of Mindanao for almost a month in November.
December 2025
One of the properties that has been subject to police investigation has been a home in Campsie, in Sydney's south-west.
The police document said Naveed Akram reserved a room in the five-bedroom house back in October for three weeks between 2 and 21 December.
Police believe the father and son occupied "room two" in the house.
When investigators forced entry after the attack, they found gun paraphernalia, ammunition, a suspected improvised explosive device (IED), bomb-making equipment and two copies of the Koran.
Speaking to police after the attack, Naveed Akram's mother said she believed the 24-year-old and his father were away on holiday in southern NSW.
She told authorities the pair left a week before the attack, and she would receive daily calls from her son in that time.
Two days before the attack
The gunmen's car was caught on CCTV at Bondi two days before the attack. Photo: ABC / NSW Local Court
On 12 December , just two days before the attack, two men believed to be Sajid and Naveed Akram were pictured on security camera footage from Campbell Parade in Bondi.
They could be seen entering the Archer Park car park at 9.30pm before walking along the same footbridge where they would commence the attack less than 48 hours later.
Naveed and Sajid Akram are seen on the bridge at Bondi Beach two days before the attack. Photo: ABC / NSW Local Court
The day of the attack
Police will allege CCTV captured the Bondi Beach gunmen carrying concealed firearms out of their Campsie property. Photo: ABC / NSW Local Court
At the Campsie property, CCTV captures the gunmen leaving the house and walking down the driveway shortly after 2am on the morning of the attack.
Both men are shown carrying "long and bulky items wrapped in blankets" into a 2001 silver Hyundai Elantra, according to court documents.
Naveed and Sajid Akram walk outside their Campsie home with bulky items that police say are guns. Photo: ABC / NSW Local Court
"Police allege the bulky items loaded into the vehicle were two single-barrel shotguns, a Beretta rifle, four home-made improvised explosive devices ... and two Islamic State (IS) flags," the court documents state.
Dressed in black T-shirts, the pair were again seen leaving the Campsie property and getting into the silver vehicle just after 5pm.
Sajid Akram at the home he rented before the Bondi Beach attack. Photo: ABC / NSW Local Court
The car is picked up on CCTV again at 5.57pm travelling east on Oxford Street, Centennial Park, towards Bondi.
The gunmen drive at Centennial Park en route to Bondi Beach. Photo: ABC / NSW Local Court
About one minute later, the silver car can be seen on Ocean Street, Woollahra.
Here the car remains stopped until about 6.17pm and, while the vehicle is parked, police will allege the pair took turns getting in and out of the car and inspecting the back seats.
Sajid Akram is seen outside the car on Ocean Road in Woollahra. Photo: ABC / NSW Local Court
Finally, the car turns around onto Syd Einfeld Drive in Bondi Junction.
At 6.25pm, the silver car is again captured on Old South Head Road in North Bondi, travelling towards Bondi Beach.
The car comes to a stop at Campbell Parade, near the Archer Park footbridge, at about 6.50pm.
The Bondi gunmen's car is parked at Bondi Beach. Photo: ABC / NSW Local Court
Once parked, police will allege the pair removed both IS flags from the car and placed them on the front and rear windscreens.
The gunmen removed three firearms and a number of makeshift explosives from the car and approached the footbridge.
A homemade Islamic State flag sits in the back of the car driven by the Bondi gunmen. Photo: ABC / NSW Local Court
The IEDs were thrown first into the crowd at Archer Park but they did not detonate.
Police images of homemade pipe bombs at the scene. Photo: ABC / NSW Local Court
The shooting attack began shortly after, with 14 people killed at the scene and another dying from their injuries in hospital.
Naveed and Sajid Akram during the attack. Photo: ABC / NSW Local Court
Forty people were injured, including two NSW Police officers.
Another explosive device was later found by police in the boot of the car.
An IED sits in the boot of the car driven by the gunmen to Bondi Beach. Photo: ABC / NSW Local Court
After almost a week under police guard in a Sydney hospital, Naveed Akram has now been transferred to a correctional facility.
The 24-year-old's matter is due to be heard in court again in February.
- ABC