The Bondi Beach massacre suspect Naveed Akram is claimed to be corresponding with a lady while awaiting trial behind bars.
He’s the prime suspect in the fear attack at a Bondi Beach Hanukkah event in December,
Two gunmen opened fire on 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 together with a bunch of other offences.
The second suspected gunman, Akram’s dad Sajid, 50, was shot and killed on the scene by police.
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The 24-year-old has been detained within the high-security unit on the Goulburn prison 124 miles outside of Sydney.
He has received no less than one letter from a female prisoner, who’s locked up in a women’s jail, based on the Australian Each day 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.
Recent South Wales Corrective Services doesn’t comment on individual inmates.
Prisoners are allowed to receive and send letters, including with other inmates, although content can’t 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 together with his dad within the hours before the tragedy on December 14.
Ms Akram was reportedly not capable of discover her son from a photograph from the scene.
She continued: ‘He doesn’t have a firearm. He doesn’t even exit. 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 continues to be 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 many victims was Rabbi Eli Schlander, a key organiser of the Hanukkah event, who grew up in north London.
One other victim was a granddad and Holocaust survivour Alex Kleytman, who was shot as he shielded his wife throughout the gunfire
He and his wife Larisa each 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 lady who spread happiness all over the place she went.
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