US EditionBondi Junction Inquest LIVE updates: Hero cop among witnesses to give evidence in first week
- On April 13, 2024, Joel Cauchi stabbed six people at Sydney's Bondi Junction Westfield.
- Diagnosed with schizophrenia as a teen, Cauchi was unmedicated for years and detached from mental healthcare.
- The attack killed six people and injured ten others in less than three minutes.
- Counsel assisting Peggy Dwyer said Cauchi "was preoccupied with weapons, with violence."
- A five-week inquest is examining the circumstances and seeking to prevent future tragedies.
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Stabber had 'preoccupation with death' before rampage
The inquest into mass killings at Bondi Juntion follows the devastating attack’s first anniversary. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS) By Miklos Bolza Before he murdered six people in a busy metro shopping centre during a psychotic episode, a stabber was preoccupied with weapons, violence and mass killing, a coroner has heard. Joel Cauchi had fallen through the cracks of the mental health system when he armed himself with a knife and rampaged through Sydn…
Internet history reveals Bondi Junction killer was 'planning a strike', inquest told
The opening day of the inquest has been told there was evidence of "rudimentary planning" and in the years prior Joel Cauchi had purchased knives which were used on the day of the attack that killed six people.
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