An inquiry into the stabbing spree at a well-known Sydney shopping center has determined that it took Joel Cauchi only three minutes to kill six people and injure ten more.
A New South Wales Coroner’s jury heard on Tuesday that Cauchi, 40, was mentally ill and sleeping hard at the time of the event, and had come off his medicines for dementia, prompting his parents to remove his looking knives.
The investigation also discovered that the center did n’t have an alarm system until after Cauchi was shot dead by police.
The event on 13 April devastated Australia, where mass murder is unique, and prompted a national conversation about stereotyped violence.
All up, 14 of the 17 individuals stabbed that day were sexual- including five of the six who were killed, and a nine-month-old child. At the time, the NSW police inspector claimed that Cauchi had “obviously” focused people.
An extensive examination is scheduled to begin in total in April 2025, according to the hearing on Tuesday. The analysis did examine potential security flaws and shortcomings in Cauchi’s home state of Queensland and NSW.
The coroner’s attorney, Dr. Peggy Dwyer SC, claimed Cauchi had been taking his psychotropic drugs since 2019 despite being consistently warned of his deteriorating health. Cauchi had come” to the interest” of Queensland authorities many times, she said.
Harris also provided the first detailed account of how the actual assault took place in Bondi that day in her assertion.
She claimed that Cauchi, who had been sleeping rough in Maroubra on the morning of the attack, entered Westfield shopping center at around 15.30 ( local ), and allegedly started stabbing people after cutting his knife in a bakery line.
His initial target was Dawn Singleton, 25, followed by 47-year-old Jade Young and 25-year-old Yixuan Cheng. He therefore attacked Ashlee Good, 38, from beyond.
Great- who has been described by her home as an “all-round excellent human”- next saw Cauchi stabbing her nine-month-old baby girl in her pram, and was further wounded trying to save the child’s life, the court heard.
Faraz Tahir, a 30-year-old security watch, was stabbed future, alongside a partner. People at the time claimed that he died” trying to save others.”
Pikria Darchia, 55, was fatally stabbed by Cauchi before NSW Police Insp Amy Scott, who was on work nearby, shot her. The prosecutor was informed that more than a second had passed between the time Scott arrived and the time she killed Cauchi.
The assault lasted for five and a half hours and 43 hours, but no alarm was sounded while it was happening.
” It’s currently vague why it took so long for the alarm to sound”, Dwyer said.
State prosecutor Teresa O’Sullivan acknowledged the suffering and loss experienced by the murder before the reading began.
According to the Guardian Australia, she told the court,” I offer my sincere condolences to the family and loved ones who are here in court today as well as those who ca n’t be here in person.”
” It’s important to me and my assisting team … that you feel safe, you feel heard and you feel cared for throughout this proceeding”.