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Get you up to speed: Australia detains Bondi Beach massacre suspect Naveed Akram as trial awaits
Naveed Akram, the prime suspect in the Bondi Beach massacre, is accused of several counts of murder and committing a terrorist attack. The second suspected gunman was Sajid Akram, who was shot and killed at the scene by police.
Naveed Akram, the prime suspect in the Bondi Beach massacre, has been accused of multiple counts of murder and terror-related offences following the attack on December 14, 2025, which resulted in the deaths of 16 people, including a 10-year-old girl and Holocaust survivor Alex Kleytman. According to the Australian Daily Telegraph, Akram has received at least one letter from a female prisoner while detained in a high-security unit at Goulburn prison.
Naveed Akram is currently detained in the high-security unit at Goulburn prison, 124 miles outside of Sydney, where he is reportedly corresponding with a female prisoner. Australia continues to grieve the victims of the Bondi Beach massacre, with a national day of mourning observed in January.
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An image shown in court shows Naveed Akram allegedly exiting a rental apartment on the day of the mass shooting in Bondi Beach (Picture: AFP/Getty Images)
The Bondi Beach massacre suspect Naveed Akram is said to be corresponding with a woman while awaiting trial behind bars.
He is the prime suspect in the terror attack at a Bondi Beach Hanukkah event in December,
Two gunmen opened fire at the crowds near the famous Sydney beach, killing 16 people, including a 10-year-old girl and a Holocaust survivour.
Akram, 24, is accused of several counts of murder and committing a terrorist attack along with a host of other offences.
The second suspected gunman, Akram’s dad Sajid, 50, was shot and killed at the scene by police.
A sea of candles and flowers were left in tribute to the Bondi Beach massacre victims (Picture: AFP/Getty Images)
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The 24-year-old has been detained in the high-security unit at the Goulburn prison 124 miles outside of Sydney.
He has received at least one letter from a female prisoner, who is locked up in a women’s jail, according to the Australian Daily Telegraph.
Prison sources are said to be joking about Akram having a ‘pen pal.’
A source suggested the tone of the letter was not romantic.
New South Wales Corrective Services does not comment on individual inmates.
Family members of Rabbi Eli Schlanger, who grew up in London, mourned his death in the Bondi Beach terror attack (Picture: AFP/Getty Images)
Prisoners are allowed to receive and send letters, including with other inmates, although content cannot be abusive, offensive, threatening or indecent.
Akram, from Bonnyrigg in Sydney, is believed to have told his mum, Verena, he was on a fishing trip with his dad in the hours before the tragedy on December 14.
Ms Akram was reportedly not able to identify her son from a photo from the scene.
She continued: ‘He doesn’t have a firearm. He doesn’t even go out. He doesn’t mix around with friends. He doesn’t drink, he doesn’t smoke, he doesn’t go to bad places.
‘He goes to work, he comes home, he goes to exercise, and that’s it.’
Australia is still coming to terms with the massacre, with a national day of mourning observed in January with a sea of candles of those killed.
Among the victims was Rabbi Eli Schlander, a key organiser of the Hanukkah event, who grew up in north London.
Another victim was a granddad and Holocaust survivour Alex Kleytman, who was shot as he shielded his wife during the gunfire
He and his wife Larisa both survived the genocide unleashed by the Nazis, with Alex living in ‘dreadful conditions’ in Siberia.
The pair moved to Australia from Ukraine and were married for 57 years.
The youngest victim of the shooting was Matilda, 10, whose family described her as a girl who spread happiness everywhere she went.
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October 12, 2024
6:18 am
‘Cheer up, you caught the bad guy,’ says killer Virginia McCullough as she is arrested for murdering her parents
A woman who murdered her parents “in cold blood” before hiding them in makeshift tombs for four years told officers to “cheer up, you caught the bad guy” as she was arrested in her home.
Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with prescription medication and fatally stabbed her mother Lois McCullough, 71, shortly afterwards in 2019.
She ran up large debts on credit cards in her parents’ names and after their deaths, she continued to spend their pensions until she was finally caught in 2023.
In body-worn video footage released by police, a handcuffed – and eerily calm – McCullough told officers: “I did know that this would kind of come eventually.
“It’s proper that I serve my punishment.”
She said she had slipped something into her father’s drink then put his body under a bed on the ground floor, and put her mother’s body in an upstairs wardrobe.
McCullough, having been arrested on suspicion of double murder, told an officer: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy.”
She added: “I know I don’t seem 100% evil.”
At the police station, she told officers where a kitchen knife was, which she described as a “murder weapon”, and a hammer which she said “will still have blood on it”.
McCullough, of Pump Hill, Chelmsford, Essex, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday with a minimum term of 36 years at Chelmsford Crown Court, after she admitted to their murders between 17 and 20 June 2019 at an earlier hearing at the same court.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard how she hid their bodies in makeshift tombs at the family home in Great Baddow in Essex, then told persistent lies to cover her tracks.
The court heard she cancelled family arrangements and frequently told doctors and relatives her parents were unwell, on holiday or away on lengthy trips.
But concerns over Mr and Mrs McCullough’s welfare were raised in September 2023 by a GP at their registered practice, and Essex County Council’s safeguarding team referred these to police.
The GP had not seen the couple for some time and said Mr McCullough had failed to collect medication and attend scheduled appointments. It was found McCullough had frequently cancelled appointments, using a range of excuses to explain her father’s absence.
Police said a missing persons investigation was initially launched and McCullough lied to officers, claiming her parents were travelling and would be returning in October.
It became a murder investigation, and when officers forced entry to the house in Pump Hill on September 15 2023, McCullough confessed that her parents’ bodies were in the house and that she had killed them.
Nicola Rice, a specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “McCullough callously and viciously killed both of her parents before concealing their bodies in makeshift tombs within their home address.
“She spent the next four years manipulating and lying to family members, medical staff, financial institutions, and the police, spending her parents’ money and accruing large debts in their name.”
She added: “This was a truly disturbing case, which has left behind it a trail of devastation, and I can only hope that the sentence passed today will help those who loved and cared for Lois and John begin to heal.”
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8:25 am
Defense alliance NATO chief Mark Rutte has met US President-elect Donald Trump to discuss global security issues, according to a NATO spokesperson.
The meeting took place in Palm Beach, Florida.
During his first term as US president, 2017-2020, Trump pushed for European NATO countries to spend more on defense and described the alliance’s cost-sharing as unfair to the US.
Rutte took over as NATO chief from Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg in November.
Before taking office in January, Trump has nominated Pete Hegseth for the post of defense secretary, which has raised eyebrows among many allies.
Hegseth, 44, has served as an infantry captain in Iraq and Afghanistan, but has no senior military or government officer experience.
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Multiple missiles were fired in an airstrike towards a densely populated part of Lebanon’s capital early on Saturday.
The huge airstrike targeted Beirut’s Basta neighbourhood, and no prior warnings were given by the Israeli military. The largely residential area was struck last month.
At least one violent explosion was heard across the city, Reuters witnesses said, and plumes of smoke could be seen. Scenes of massive destruction at the site were shared online, including a massive crater in the ground.
“Beirut, the capital, woke up to a horrific massacre, as the Israeli enemy’s air force completely destroyed an eight-story residential building with five missiles on Al-Mamoun Street in Basta,” the state-run National News Agency reported.
The health ministry put the initial death toll at four, with 23 wounded. The number is expected to climb in the coming hours as search and rescue efforts continue.
It came after a long day of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, which have been non-stop since last week.
The cross-border fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group escalated into a full-blown war in mid-September.
Israel has bombed southern Lebanon, Beirut’s southern suburbs and the eastern Beqaa region, and has sent ground troops across the border. Hezbollah has continued to fire rockets deeper into Israel.
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