Local authorities say the pair rarely left their room, casting doubt on suggestions they were in the South-East Asian nation to allegedly prepare the attack at Islamic State training camps.
Details of the investigation against the accused Bondi terrorists can be revealed after the media advocated for the release of court documents, which allege the father and son trained in Australia for their attacks.
Naveed Akram, 24, did not appear in the Downing Centre Local Court on Monday.
Pipebombs in the back of the Akrams’ car in Bondi.
A temporary order had been made last week to protect names of survivors of the horrific shooting, which claimed 15 lives at a Jewish Hanukkah festival last Sunday in the name of Islamic State.
Lawyers for the NSW Police Commissioner and Crown Prosecutors did not oppose the application by the media companies -including this masthead – to lift the suppression order on Monday.
The media companies’ lawyers offered not to name surviving victims of the attack – without their consent – so the full case against Akram could be revealed.
The police fact sheet includes photographs of the Akrams training for their attack in Australia.
Authorities are investigating whether the pair were inspired by the terror group to carry out the attack as lone wolves – or whether they were actively supported.
Sajid was shot dead when police returned fire and Naveed was hit in the chest and barely survived.
Police found improvised explosive devices in the Akrams’ silver Hyundai, and two homemade Islamic State flags that the men had put in the rear and front windows before the attack, the facts allege.
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