The mother of 24-year-old Naveed Akram, who along with his father Sajid allegedly carried out the terror attack targeting Jews in Sydney’s Bondi Beach, has said she does not believe her son could be behind the attack, calling him “a good boy.”
Verena Akram tells The Sydney Morning Herald the father and son had told the family they were going on a fishing trip for the weekend.
“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,” she says. “He goes to work, he comes home, he goes to exercise, and that’s it.”
“Anyone would wish to have a son like my son… he’s a good boy.”
She adds that she spoke to her son hours before the shooting. “He rings me up and said, Mum, I just went for a swim. I went scuba diving. We’re going… to eat now, and then this morning, and we’re going to stay home now because it’s very hot.”
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