Joel Cauchi’s psychiatrist failed to see the early warning signs of his relapse into psychosis and should be investigated by the Queensland health ombudsman, New South Wales coroner Teresa O’Sullivan has concluded.
Cauchi, who had a recurrent form of schizophrenia, was un-medicated and homeless when he killed six people and injured ten others at the Westfield shopping centre in Bondi Junction in 2024.
In the 837-page coronial inquest report, released yesterday, O'Sullivan outlined how Cauchi’s psychiatrist weaned him off his medication and discharged him to his GP in 2020. He lost touch with family in Queensland and was sleeping rough in Sydney at the time of the attack.
