Joel Cauchi’s mother told police he would not get treatment unless he did ‘something drastic,’ inquest hears

Bondi Junction attacker Joel Cauchi during the mass stabbing and beforehand while ordering a meal in the Oxford Street mall. Composite: X / Saigon Noodle

More than a year before Joel Cauchi stabbed six people to death in Bondi Junction, a Queensland police officer requested the local mental health officer follow up with the Cauchi family, an inquest has heard.

It followed Cauchi’s mother reportedly telling police during a separate incident: “I don’t know how we’re going to get him treatment unless he does something drastic.”