Bondi Junction Killer’s psychiatrist makes amazing back flow just hours after revealing his motive for attack
The former psychiatrist of the attacker at the Bondy Junction Mall retreated in a previous statement that violence was subject to sexual frustration.
Joel Cauchi, 40, fatally stabbed six shoppers at the junction of Westfield Bondi in Sydney and injured 10 people in April 2024.
Queensland psychiatrists treated Cauchi for eight years and she commented on the motivation for the attack she asked about Tuesday.
“It may have something to do with frustration, sexual frustration, pornography and hatred of women,” she said.
But when she returned to the witness box on Wednesday, she reversed the evidence.
“This is my guess, I shouldn’t say what I said,” she told the NSW coroner court.
“Did you withdraw?” asked the lawyer Sue Chrysanthou Sc. Representing the families of three Cauchi victims Ashlee Good, Jade Young and Dawn Singleton.
“Yes,” the doctor replied.
Joel Cauchi, 40, experienced psychiatric symptoms the day he stabbed six people
The investigation provided expert evidence that during the attack, Cage was “loose in mental illness.”
Officials investigating the police also previously told the coroner that he had no advice on women when he stabbed.
Cauchi was diagnosed with schizophrenia, had been treated successfully and insisted on taking antipsychotics.
But when he moved from the public to the private system, he developed a plan with a psychiatrist (which could not be legally determined) to gradually lower his dose.
By mid-2019, he had completely gotten rid of the two antipsychotic drugs he was taking.
In the early 19020, he was completely disconnected from the mental health system at the beginning of 19020.
The psychiatrist apologized on Wednesday for assisting the attorney with Peggy Dwyer SC during Tuesday’s inquiry.
“I have acute pain, I’m taking medication, and I’m late for flight,” she said.
But she soon became frustrated by Ms. Kuma’s barbecue, saying the lawyer “had no medical degree” in questions about blood tests and antipsychotic levels.
Westfield Bondi
When asked if the warning signs of relapse are actually signs of mental illness, she said, “I have to educate you.”
“I don’t want to be educated,” Ms. chrysanthou replied.
The psychiatrist denied the link between cauchi being antipsychotic and having an obsession with porn and sex a few months later.
She also dismissed the brothel after he wanted to take HIV antiviral drugs, a sign of paranoidness.
Although he showed symptoms in 2001, 2002 and 2008, doctors also defended her initial assessment of Cauchi because he suffered from episode one schizophrenia.
However, she admitted that she had not transferred her diagnosis to Cauchi’s GP.
The court was told that this was different from her earlier statement, and she had a detailed conversation with the GP when she was discharged in March 2020.
There is no telephone record, and the first suggestion on the claimed dialogue emerged in the second statement to the police in 2025.
Inspector Amy Scott
A release letter to the doctor shown in the court told him that Cage needed to refer a replacement psychiatrist “if needed” and did not list any details about the treatment he received.
The psychiatrist told the court that I was satisfied with doing the right thing.
The five-week survey explores Kuch’s mental health care and the response of emergency services to the attack.
