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A Sydney Islamic centre linked to controversial preacher Wissam Haddad has been shut down for illegally operating as a prayer hall.

Canterbury-Bankstown Council issued a "cease use" directive over Haddad's use of the Al Madina Dawah Centre in the city's south-west.

A review of council records dating back to 1970 revealed the centre was never approved to operate as a prayer hall and was only recently being approved to operate as a medical centre.

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The centre never sought authorisation to change the use of the address from a medical centre to a prayer hall, according to the council.

"Our recent surveillance indicates there is a strong suspicion the premises is being used contrary to its intended use," a council spokesperson said.

"We have issued the cease use notices, which will be effective immediately.

"There are no compromises, and we will be taking further action if they don't comply."

Council has also issued notices to the building's owner and other related parties to alert them of the currently approved use.

Al Madina Dawah Centre has been criticised for its association with Haddad, also known as Abu Ousayd.

He has reportedly been associated with the alleged Bondi terrorist Naveed Akram and was found in the Federal Court in July to have breached the Racial Discrimination Act for antisemitic lectures.

Haddad has denied any prior knowledge of the Bondi attack.

Al Madina Dawah Centre has also come under new management in the past week, and said it believed it did not need a development application as the previous owners had operated out of the site for four years without any issue.

It insisted that Haddad held no management or administration role, operational authority, or decision-making at the centre and had only attended as an occasional guest speaker.

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"Al Madina Group rejects any attempt to conflate administrative or planning matters with allegations of extremism, national security, or criminal conduct," it said in a statement today.

"Such framing is not only misleading (but) dangerously irresponsible."

Haddad was previously ordered to shut down unauthorised prayer meetings at a venue on Eldon Street in Georges Hall in 2023 which was only approved to operate as a gym.

He, however, failed to comply and was issued with another notice and eventually closed.

After media reports emerged that he was preaching from the Al Madina Dawah Centre in May, the council investigated and carried out surveillance of the property.

But they found no evidence to issue a notice.

After continued surveillance, they gained photo evidence that the address was being used for unauthorised purposes.

"Council needs to make it clear that we have no control over what is preached inside these 'illegal' prayer halls and our role is to ensure the premises are used in accordance with their authorised use," the council spokesperson said.

"We will continue to monitor the centre and will be taking further action if necessary."

Non-compliance with the order could lead to a $3000 fine for an individual and $6000 fine for a corporation.

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Premier Chris Minns said he supported the council's decision and offered his support for more operations.

"This is an important change not just for that community but for NSW," he told reporters this afternoon.

"I want to make it clear that it is not the end of the matter.

"We need to take decisive steps, whether through planning laws and hate speech, to send the message to those intent on putting hate in people's hearts or spreading racism in the community, that they will be met with the full force of the law, and that's exactly what happened today."

Minns added the community can "expect more of this, not less of it, in the weeks to come".

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A spate of oyster thefts has inspired a warning from police on the dangers of buying cheap seafood in the lead-up to Christmas.

The Rural Crime Prevention Team inspected 13 oyster leases on the NSW South Coast including the Clyde River in Batemans Bay, the Bermagui River at Wapengo and the Wagonga Inlet in Narooma in a four-day operation from Friday until yesterday, after recent oyster thefts.

Their investigation also included water patrols, checking boat safety equipment and recreational fishing licenses and will continue across the summer period.

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While too-good-to-be-true prices may be tempting, oysters sold outside of reputable sellers could be dangerous, Detective Sergeant Michael Calleja said.

"It's not worth the risk," Calleja said.

"Not only is it illegal, but it may not be good for your health.

"Illegal sellers are not bound by strict health requirements, making the oysters potentially unsafe to consume."

Oyster theft can carry penalties of up to $275,000 or even imprisonment.

Anyone with information can contact Crime Stoppers, Fishers Watch or report online via the DPI website.

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A USstate judge has accepted plea agreements for the owners of a Colorado funeral home for the abuse of 191 corpses, many of which languished in a room-temperature building for years, over the objections of relatives of the victims.

Authorities say Carie and Jon Hallford, who owned and operated Return to Nature Funeral Home in Colorado Springs, maintained a lavish lifestyle and gave fake ashes to some families of the dead over four years.

The latest plea agreements would have Jon Hallford sentenced to between 30 and 50 years and Carie Hallford to between 25 and 35 years. The sentences would be served at the same time as their prison terms for related federal charges.

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Victims’ family members wanted each of them sentenced to 191 years — which would include one year for each victim.

Some also said the Hallfords shouldn't be able to serve both the state and federal sentences at the same time.

Jon Hallford is scheduled to be sentenced on February 6, Carie Hallford is set to be sentenced April 24.

A statement by a group of victims’ family members had said they wanted to have the cases proceed to trial.

“This case is not about convenience or efficiency,” said Crystina Page, whose son’s body was among those found.

“It is about human beings who were treated as disposable.

"Accepting a plea agreement sends the message that this level of abuse is negotiable. We reject that message.”

Kelly Schloesser said her mother, Mary Lou Ehrlich, looked peaceful after she died in 2022, but her final memories have been haunted after learning a year later that Ehrlich's body had been left to decompose.

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“I apologise to my mother every day for trusting these people,” she told state District Judge Eric Bentley.

Lawyers for both Hallford urged Bentley to accept the plea agreements, which will also ban them from working in the funeral home industry.

Carie Hallford’s lawyer, Beau Worthington, noted that she would be eligible to be sentenced to probation if she was convicted after a trial.

In a rare decision, Bentley earlier this year rejected previous plea agreements that called for up to 20 years in prison, with family members of the deceased saying the proposed punishments were too lenient.

Bentley praised families of the victims for their advocacy in court, which he said resulted in the sentence ranges being lengthened dramatically.

“These are really meaningful changes from where I sit,” he said.

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Bentley said he could not legally stack the state sentences on top of the federal ones because that would amount to punishing the Hallfords twice for the same conduct.

The Hallfords are accused of dumping bodies and giving families fake ashes between 2019 and 2023.

Investigators have described finding the bodies in 2023 stored atop each other in a bug-infested building in Penrose, a small town about a two-hour drive south of Denver.

The scene was horrific, officials said, with bodies stacked atop each other in various states of decay — some having been there for four years.

While Jon Hallford was accused of dumping the bodies, authorities said Carie Hallford was the face of the funeral home.

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During a hearing in November, Bentley said he considered the need for deterrence in rejecting the plea agreement.

Colorado, for many years, had some of the weakest funeral home industry regulations in the nation, leading to numerous abuse cases involving fake ashes, fraud, and even the illegal selling of body parts.

In August, authorities announced that during their first inspection of a funeral home owned by the county coroner in Pueblo, Colorado, they found 24 decomposing corpses behind a hidden door.

That investigation is pending as authorities have reported slow progress in identifying corpses that, in some cases, have languished for more than a decade.

The Return to Nature case has helped trigger reforms, including routine inspections.

The Hallfords also have admitted in federal court to defrauding the US Small Business Administration of nearly $US900,000 ($1.34 million) in pandemic-era aid and taking payments from customers for cremations the funeral home never performed.

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