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Hero Constable Returns Home After Bondi Beach Shooting

12/23/2025

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Probationary Constable Jack Hibbert has returned home after being shot in the eye during the Bondi Beach terror attack on December 14 while patrolling the Chanukah by the Sea event and confronting gunmen Sajid and Naveed Akram.
Constable Scott Dyson, also injured, has woken from a medically induced coma.
Naveed Akram, the gunman, has been transferred from the hospital to a correctional facility after a week under police guard.

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Probationary Constable Jack Hibbert has returned home after being shot in the eye during the Bondi Beach terror attack on December 14 while patrolling the Chanukah by the Sea event and confronting gunmen Sajid and Naveed Akram.
Constable Scott Dyson, also injured, has woken from a medically induced coma.
Naveed Akram, the gunman, has been transferred from the hospital to a correctional facility after a week under police guard.