Originally Posted by Thegman
"They said they were not able to name him until a formal identification had taken place but that they weren't treating the attack as terrorism-related."

Yet:

"NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb said ....he was a 40-year-old who was known to police... but not believed to have held terrorist beliefs. He has not been formally identified. Police are confident he acted alone."

So, he's known to police but they can't "formally" identify him. Sounds like sandbagging until the story loses some steam, to me.

I guess I was wrong, or not completely right, anyway. Sounds like a deranged nut job.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...rge-Bondi-Junction-Westfield-attack.html