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Joel Cauchi named as Bondi Westfield attacker who stabbed shoppers​

Police believe 40-year-old Queensland man suffered from mental health problems and had only moved to Sydney a month ago

Catie McLeod and Eden Gillespie
Sun 14 Apr 2024 04.46 BST
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Queensland man Joel Cauchi has been named by police as the attacker who stabbed six people to death and seriously wounded 12 others including an infant at the Westfield shopping centre in Sydney’s Bondi Junction.
Police believe Cauchi, 40, had mental health problems and that he had moved to New South Wales only a month before he took a knife into the crowded mall on Saturday afternoon and went on an unprovoked stabbing spree.

Guardian Australia understands Cauchi did not have a fixed address in Sydney and that police do not believe he knew any of his victims.
A NSW police assistant commissioner, Anthony Cooke, disclosed Cauchi’s identity at a press conference on Sunday morning.
“We are continuing to work through the profiling of the offender but very clearly to us at this stage it will appear related to the mental health of the individual,” Cooke said.
“There is still to this point nothing – no information we have received, no evidence we’ve recovered, no intelligence that we have gathered – that would suggest that this was driven by any particular motivation, ideology or otherwise.”
How the Westfield Bondi Junction stabbing unfolded – video report


How the Westfield Bondi Junction stabbing unfolded – video report
Cauchi had moved from the Brisbane area and rented a “very small” storage unit in Sydney which police searched overnight, Cooke said.

Cooke would not say what police found in the unit, which Guardian Australia understands was only about 1 cubic square metre in size.
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Cauchi killed five women and one man. Asked if police had any information to suggest he targeted women, Cooke said detectives would “canvass all possibilities”.
“I don’t know that to be the case at this stage,” he said. “Very clearly, those matters will be part of the investigation.”
The Queensland police assistant commissioner, Roger Lowe, said Cauchi had not been prosecuted or charged with any offence in Queensland, including domestic violence.
“There are no [domestic violence] orders in place,” Lowe told reporters on Sunday.
It is believed Cauchi had an interest in knives. Lowe confirmed QPS were investigating an incident in early 2023 in which Cauchi reportedly called police after his family took away his knives.
“This gentleman was diagnosed with a mental illness at the age of 17 and has had treatment over the years,” Lowe said. “From our investigations… just in the last number of years, his mental health has declined.”

Cauchi’s family only had periodic contact with their son and contacted the police after seeing footage of the incident, according to Lowe.
“The family… are issuing a statement on their behalf with respect to their own condolences and thoughts to the family and friends of those victims involved in this tragedy.”
“Equally they have sent a message to the NSW police force with respect to support of the police officer who has killed their son and expressing their concerns for her welfare.”
Cauchi was shot dead at the shopping centre by a police officer after he allegedly lunged at her with the knife. He was treated by paramedics but died at the scene.
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Insp Amy Scott was conducting routine duties nearby when she was directed to go to the shopping centre by reports a man was using a “massive” knife to stab shoppers.
The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, said Scott was a hero who “no doubt” saved lives.
Police believe Cauchi’s female victims were aged between 20 and 55 and the man was aged in his 30s. All of them died at the shopping centre where they were stabbed.
Two of the victims were from overseas and police had not been able to get in contact with their families as of Sunday morning.
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Nor had any of the victims had been formally identified. One of the women killed was widely named by Australian media as Dr Ashlee Good, who was shopping with her nine-month-old daughter when Cauchi attacked them both.
The infant was in the intensive care unit at Sydney’s Royal Children’s hospital on Sunday after undergoing emergency surgery overnight. Eleven other people injured in the attack were being treated at hospitals across Sydney.
Good, 38, died after trying to save her baby. Her family said on Sunday they were “reeling from the terrible loss”.

In a statement, the family confirmed the baby girl’s condition had improved.

They described Good as “a beautiful mother, daughter, sister, partner, friend, all round outstanding human and so much more”.
“To the two men who held and cared for our baby when Ashlee could not – words cannot express our gratitude,” they said.
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'Who does that to people?': witnesses recount Westfield Bondi Junction stabbing – video
A fundraiser set up to support Good’s family had raised more than $14,000 by late Sunday morning.
Police have asked anyone who was at the shopping centre on Saturday or who had any other information to contact crime stoppers.
 
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Sydney attacker Joel Cauchi was a teacher turned male escort​

Andrea Hamblin
Sun, 14 April 2024 at 10:01 am GMT+1


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Joel Cauchi was shot dead after stabbing shoppers and a security guard
The man who murdered six people in a busy shopping centre was a teacher turned male escort who was known to authorities because of previous concerning behaviour including an unusual interest in knives.
‌The attacker has been identified as Joel Cauchi, a 40-year-old who was sleeping rough after moving from Queensland to Sydney where he was shot dead on Saturday.
‌In a statement released on Sunday, his parents Andrew and Michele, described their son’s actions as “truly horrific”.
‌“We are absolutely devastated by the traumatic events that occurred in Sydney yesterday,” they said.‌
“Our thoughts and prayers are with the families and friends of the victims and those still undergoing treatment at this time.
‌“We are in contact with both the NSW Police Force and Queensland Police Service and have no issues with the police officer who shot our son as she was only doing her job to protect others and we hope she is coping alright.”‌
Ashlee Good

Ashlee Good handed her baby to bystanders after she was stabbed - Good family handout
Inspector Amy Scott shot Cauchi after he lunged at her with the knife he had already used to wound 17 people inside Westfield in Bondi Junction – among them, a baby girl who was being pushed by her mother, Dr Ashlee Good.
‌Dr Good, an osteopath who was remembered by family as an “all round outstanding human” died in hospital on Saturday night. Her daughter remained in hospital on Sunday after undergoing surgery.
‌Five other victims – four women and a male security guard – were killed inside the shopping centre.
‌They include architect Jade Young, 47, and Dawn Singleton, 25, who worked as an e-commerce assistant, and the daughter of millionaire businessman John Singleton.
Faraz Tahir, 30, from Pakistan, was on his first shift at Westfield when he was fatally stabbed.
‌Cauchi’s family contacted police after seeing news footage of the attacker, who police said would only occasionally “text his mother with an update as to where he was”.
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Dawn Singleton was shopping for makeup for her wedding - UNPIXS
‌As Australians reeled from the deaths, questions turned to the man’s motivations and past interactions with authorities and psychiatrists.‌
Anthony Cooke, the assistant commissioner of New South Wales Police, said: “There is still to this point nothing – no information we have received, no evidence we’ve recovered, no intelligence that we have gathered – that would suggest that this was driven by any particular motivation, ideology or otherwise.”
‌Cauchi did not have a criminal record. But he was known to police and government health agencies because of periods of alarming behaviour since being diagnosed as schizophrenic at age 17.
‌Queensland police assistant commissioner, Roger Lowe, said officers in that state last recorded interacting with Cauchi during a street check in the Gold Coast in December.
‌In a separate incident, officers were called to his house in 2023 after he had a dispute with his family. Cauchi had been in possession of knives and made allegations his family were abusing him by trying to take them away, the Courier Mail newspaper reported.‌
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Joel Cauchi had expressed interest in surfing, astronomy, art – and weapons
A man who owns a knife-sharpening business said about three years ago Cauchi had asked the business to sharpen his two “everyday knives”.
‌“Which I thought was weird,” the owner told the Guardian. “He wasn’t a chef or a butcher.”
‌Cauchi tried to organise meet-ups with people who like to “shoot guns”, social media posts show. Unemployed and drifting between hostels, Cauchi had turned to online sex websites to advertise his services as a male escort.
‌But none of his recent online activities raised alarm bells with authorities. In a backpacker group, he asked fellow travellers to join him in a road trip to explore New South Wales.
‌In April he put out a call to go surfing at the world-famous Bondi Beach.
‌It was in Bondi on Saturday that Cauchi stopped to eat his last meal at a Vietnamese restaurant, at 10am.
‌But he seemed “confused”, staff reported, and didn’t have money to pay. He came back at midday to purchase a red curry with rice.
By 3.30pm he had pulled a knife from his backpack, and committed one of the most devastating crimes in recent Australian history.
 
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