Bondi Junction killer’s mental health deteriorated after stopping medication, hearing told

Directions hearing into fatal stabbing of six people at Sydney shopping centre in April to examine Joel Cauchi’s history with police and delayed Westfield alarmFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA coroner’s court has heard that it took just three minutes for homeless and mentally unwell man Joel Cauchi to fatally stab six people and injure 10 more in a frenzied attack in a Bondi Junction shopping centre on 13 April.On Tuesday morning, the New South Wales state coroner heard Cauchi, 40, who grew up in Toowoomba in Queensland, had been sleeping rough in Maroubra on the morning of the attack, which ended when he was shot and killed by police inspector Amy Scott.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

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Directions hearing into fatal stabbing of six people at Sydney shopping centre in April to examine Joel Cauchi’s history with police and delayed Westfield alarm

A coroner’s court has heard that it took just three minutes for homeless and mentally unwell man Joel Cauchi to fatally stab six people and injure 10 more in a frenzied attack in a Bondi Junction shopping centre on 13 April.

On Tuesday morning, the New South Wales state coroner heard Cauchi, 40, who grew up in Toowoomba in Queensland, had been sleeping rough in Maroubra on the morning of the attack, which ended when he was shot and killed by police inspector Amy Scott.

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