An Indian national, he entered Australia on a visa in 1998. A few weeks before the Bondi Beach attack, the pair returned to Sydney from a four-week trip to the southern Philippines that is now under investigation by detectives there and in Australia. They would usually leave their rooms only for two or three hours, with the longest excursion lasting eight hours, the Philippine national security service said. Clarke Jones, an Australian National University criminologist, said it was “very, very unusual” to have a father and son as suspected perpetrators. Jones, who has worked with violent offenders in the Philippines, said the alleged gunmen’s radicalization had apparently gone “under the radar” for years after the Australian intelligence probe.

Source: Taipei Times December 21, 2025 16:26 UTC