Videos and CCTV give fresh insight into gunmen's plot to target Bondi Beach

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 December 14.

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

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.

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 December 2 and 21.

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

On December 12, 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.

The day of the attack

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.

"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.

The car is picked up on CCTV again at 5:57pm travelling east on Oxford Street, Centennial Park, towards Bondi.

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 and inspecting the back seats.

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.

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 makeshift explosives from the car and approached the footbridge.

The IEDs were thrown first into the crowd at Archer Park but they did not detonate.

The shooting attack began shortly after, with 14 people killed at the scene and another dying from their injuries in hospital.

Forty people were injured, including two NSW Police officers.

Another explosive device was later found by police in the boot of the car.

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.