The mother of the 24-year-old unemployed bricklayer behind the Bondi Beach terror attack has recalled the elaborate excuse he told family ahead of the massacre.

Naveed Akram, 24, and his father, 50, opened fire on a Jewish Hanukkah event shortly before 7pm on Sunday, killing at least 16 people and injuring a further 40.

Akram was apprehended at the scene of the shooting and taken to hospital under police guard in critical but stable condition. His father died at the scene.

Speaking from her police-surrounded Bonnyrigg home, in Sydney’s west, Akram’s mother Verena said the 24-year-old had told family he had gone to Jervis Bay with his father for a weekend of fishing and swimming.

‘He rings me up [on Sunday] and said, “Mum, I just went for a swim. I went scuba diving. We’re going… to eat now”,’ she told the Sydney Morning Herald.

‘And then this morning, “we’re going to stay home now because it’s very hot”.’

Verena was unable to identify her son from a photo at the scene of the shooting, but insisted he was a ‘good boy’ who is incapable of violence or extremism.

‘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 said.

‘He goes to work, he comes home, he goes to exercise, and that’s it.’

Verena said Akram had worked as a bricklayer until about two months ago when the company became insolvent.

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