AFP Arrests Man Accused of Aiding Fugitive’s Escape in Anti-Semitic Caravan Bomb Plot

Fugitive allegedly sailed to Thailand from Thursday Island in a covert escape in 2023.

New South Wales police officers stand near members of the Australian Jewish community at a memorial service at Sydney's Bondi Beach in Australia on Sept. 2, 2024. David Gray/AFP via Getty Images

Australian Federal Police (AFP) have arrested a the 57-year-old man accused of aiding in the escape of a key suspect linked to the Sydney caravan attack hoax.

A key suspect in the January terror plot, which involved an explosives-laden caravan in Sydney’s outer suburb of Dural, fled overseas in 2023, according to the counterterrorism task force.