{"id":17468,"date":"2026-05-21T13:18:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T01:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=17468"},"modified":"2026-05-21T13:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T01:18:13","slug":"photographer-accused-of-stealing-bondi-terror-attack-victim-peter-meaghers-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=17468","title":{"rendered":"Photographer accused of stealing Bondi terror attack victim Peter Meagher&#8217;s camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A photographer who allegedly stole a camera from a Bondi terror attack victim before pawning it days later has been charged.<\/p>\n<p>Fifteen people died in the shooting at Bondi Beach on 14 December, 2025, with gunman Naveed Akram later charged with murder and terrorism offences.<\/p>\n<p>Officers investigating the attack identified that one of the victims, retired police officer and photographer Peter Meagher, had his camera equipment stolen after the attack.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo-captioned photo-captioned-full photo-cntr eight_col \">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.rnztools.nz\/rnz\/image\/upload\/s--8Drxcjww--\/ar_16:10,c_fill,f_auto,g_auto,q_auto,w_1050\/v1779315638\/4JOACLM_3c9371336ddc8a95d066a14c95ea62672_jpg?_a=BACCd2AD\" alt=\"A photographer who allegedly stole a Bondi terror attack victim's camera has been charged.\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\"><span class=\"caption\">A photographer who allegedly stole a Bondi terror attack victim&#8217;s camera has been charged.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Photo:\u00a0Supplied: NSW Police<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Police on Wednesday seized a camera, handcuffs and electronic devices during a search in Marayong in Sydney&#8217;s west.<\/p>\n<p>A 35-year-old man was arrested and taken to Riverstone Police Station, where he was charged with stealing offences, weapons and drug offences.<\/p>\n<p>Police will allege the man was a photographer at the Hanukkah event targeted in the shooting and he stole Meagher&#8217;s camera equipment before selling it days later.<\/p>\n<p>He was granted bail and is due to front Blacktown Local Court next month.<\/p>\n<p>Source: ABC &amp; RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A photographer who allegedly stole a camera from a Bondi terror attack victim before pawning it days later has been charged. Fifteen people died in the shooting at Bondi Beach on 14 December, 2025, with gunman Naveed Akram later charged with murder and terrorism offences. Officers investigating the attack identified that one of the victims, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17468"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17471,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17468\/revisions\/17471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}