'Disbelief': The moment a Sydney bricklayer realised his ex-worker was an alleged Bondi Beach terrorist

A Sydney bricklayer says he was floored when he saw alleged gunman Naveed Akram's face on social media during the Bondi Beach terror attack.

"It made me feel a bit sick that I spent so much time with someone for them to be a monster like that," Lockie told A Current Affair.

The tradesman says he worked on building sites with labourer Akram for about five years.

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When the picture of Akram holding a rifle surfaced, Lockie reposted it with a curt and expletive-laden message.

"Obviously in shock, disbelief," he said.

Lockie said he noticed a change in Akram when his father separated from his mother.

That's when he believes the father and son turned to Islam.

"I think he was born Christian and then I think his old man turned," Lockie said.

"But I don't think that's the issue, I think it more just comes down to the individual.

"I think we can't just paint every Islamic person with the same brush, you know what I mean. It's not an Islamic issue, he's just a sick individual."

The revelation comes as fresh vision emerges of the chaotic attack and aftermath.

A drone shows a crowd of people taking cover behind a lifeguard's four-wheel motorbike.

Elsewhere, festival and beachgoers sheltered behind a police car and applied first aid to a wounded officer.

Nearby, members of the public assisted first responders in dramatic scenes.

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Expectant mother Laura Dedinca sheltered from the hail of bullets behind a tree.

"I was lying down next to the tree with an officer and he was shaking, I was shaking," she told A Current Affair.

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