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NSW:Mum of girl's killer believed psychosis was hormonal

A teenager was given a vitamin to treat mental health symptoms before she killed a 10-year-old girl on a rural property, an inquest has been told.

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NSW:Mum of girl's killer 'never believed in mental health'

The family of a teenager who killed a child while in the grips of psychosis did not see her slaughter of six chickens as a "red flag", an inquest has been told.

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Mum of girl's killer believed psychosis was hormonal

A teenager was given a vitamin to treat mental health symptoms before she killed a 10-year-old girl on a rural property, an inquest has been told.

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NSW:Family blamed video games for teen killer's violence

The mother of a teenager who killed a child while in the grips of psychosis didn't believe in mental illness, an inquest has been told.

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NSW:Teen 'didn't feel real' and heard voices before killing

A teenager's descent into psychosis before she killed a 10-year-old girl on a rural property has been revealed at a long-awaited inquest.

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NT:Family of death-in-custody victim engage pathologist

The family of a young Aboriginal man who died in police custody have engaged a pathologist to provide an independent report to be part of a coronial inquest.

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Family of death-in-custody victim engage pathologist

The family of a young Aboriginal man who died in police custody have engaged a pathologist to provide an independent report to be part of a coronial inquest.

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Tammy Shipley drank 67 glasses of water before her death in custody from water intoxication, inquest hears

Coroner to examine whether police told prison staff about Aboriginal woman’s acute mental health conditions, despite previous arrest under Mental Health Act

The Guardian - AU

Bondi Junction stabbings: ‘10 seconds warning’ from security could have saved lives, inquest hears

Families of those killed ‘angered’ that Scentre Group and Glad security did not accept control room operator was not competent to be in the position she was that day

The Guardian - AU

Bondi Junction stabbings: Joel Cauchi’s psychiatrist was belligerent and confrontational when giving evidence, inquest told

Witness Dr Andrea Boros-Lavack was at times ‘confusing’ and incorrect, senior counsel assisting coroner says

The Guardian - AU

Heartbroken mother tells inquest she’s ‘lost her way’ after ‘stuff of nightmares’ murders at Bondi Junction

Elizabeth Young, who is mourning her ‘slightly goofy’ daughter Jade, gives emotional evidence that 2024 attack was due to ‘cumulative failures’

The Guardian - AU

Everyone agreed Joel Cauchi was psychotic when he murdered six people at Bondi Junction. Until his psychiatrist didn’t

The third week of a coronial inquest into the death of Cauchi and the six people he killed gave the fullest picture of his illness yet

The Guardian - AU

Nurse who treated Joel Cauchi for schizophrenia threw up when told about Bondi Junction stabbings, inquest hears

Health worker describes 40-year-old as ‘compliant’ and ‘diligent’ patient but recalls 2020 phone call and a possible ‘warning sign’ of mental health relapse

The Guardian - AU

Mall stabber's father 'did not want' son medicated

The father of a man who stabbed six people at a busy shopping centre believed his son would die if he began taking anti-psychotics again.

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The Guardian - AU

Joel Cauchi called police 15 months before the Bondi Junction attack. Officers say it was a ‘missed opportunity’

Footage at inquest shows perpetrator talking calmly with police as his mother says it’s hard to get treatment ‘unless he does something drastic’

The Guardian - AU

‘I was terrified’: security guard in charge tells Bondi Junction stabbings inquest communication difficulties caused delay in warning

Joseph Gaerlan tells court he received distress call during his lunch break warning ‘there’s lots of blood, you need to hurry’

AAP

First lessons learned in the wake of a mass killing

Oversights, confusion and plain bad luck have been highlighted as a probe investigates a mass tragedy which saw the best of humanity also on display.

The Guardian - AU

A Sydney police officer confronted a mass murderer. Her backup was a carpenter and construction worker wielding bollards

On 13 April 2024, two shots ended Australia’s worst mass murder in more than a decade. As an inquest continues, the question remains: what more could have been done?

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The Guardian - AU

Police officer who killed Bondi Junction stabber had ‘resigned myself to the fact that I was probably going to die’

Insp Amy Scott, who shot Joel Cauchi in April 2024, tells Sydney inquest she was trained to ‘stop the killing, stop the dying’

The Guardian - AU

Sole CCTV operator using bathroom when Bondi Junction attack began, Sydney court hears

Coronial inquest into 2024 incident also told killer had ‘preoccupation with death and murder’ before fatally stabbing six people

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Bondi Junction Killer Had A ‘Preoccupation With Death’ Before Rampage, Inquest Finds

Joel Cauchi — the man who went on a rampage in Bondi Junction Westfield In April 2024 — had a 'preoccupation in death', the inquest finds.

The Guardian - AU

No ‘one voice’ for families of Bondi Junction victims, court hears after John Singleton says inquest is ‘waste of time’

Court hears media should take ‘extreme care’ over stabbing case as businessman whose daughter, Dawn Singleton, was murdered, questions inquest’s purpose

The Independent UK

It took Bondi attacker just three minutes to stab 16 people, inquest hears

Attacker suffered from schizophrenia and was off medication, inquiry hears

The Guardian - AU

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 alarm

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Month-long inquest to probe Westfield stabbing rampage

An inquest will examine how and why six people were stabbed to death during a brutal knife rampage at a shopping centre involving a mentally ill man.

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