Ahmad Rashad Nadir and Sarah Abu Lebdeh: Police say Bankstown nurses likely to face Commonwealth charge

Two nurses caught on camera bragging about killing Israeli patients are likely to be charged with a Commonwealth offence, police have revealed.

During an update on the investigation on Wednesday, Detective Superintendent Darren Newman said Ahmad Rashad Nadir and Sarah Abu Lebdeh would likely face a charge relating to the use of a carriage service to menace, harass or cause offence.

The pair’s sickening conversation with Israeli influencer Max Veifer on a video chat app in which they boasted they would kill Israeli patients and “send them to Jahannam” went viral last week after Mr Leifer posted it to social media, triggering a storm of outrage.

Both nurses have since had their registrations suspended by the Nursing and Midwifery Council of NSW.

Det-Supt Newman, the commander of NSW Police’s Strike Force Pearl, said there had been complexities around obtaining the evidence because it was recorded outside Australia and Mr Veifer also lived overseas.

“We need to make sure we comply with all of those foreign rules that are there and making sure that we can get a admissible statement that can be used in accord in New South Wales,” he said.

He said the full video had been sent to police and Mr Veifer was co-operating with the investigation.

“The Israeli influencer has cooperated with the police from the very outset,” Det Supt. Newman said. “And we’re speaking to him on a daily basis at this point in time.

“I don’t want to give a time frame exactly when that evidence will come to us or how it will come to us, but certainly it is being undertaken right this minute.”

Det-Supt. Newman said police were considering charges under the Commonwealth code but would seek advice from the director of Public Prosecutions.