The psychiatrist who treated Joel Cauchi for schizophrenia says his stabbing attack that killed six people in a Sydney shopping centre was not caused by psychosis but likely due to his sexual frustrations and “hatred towards women”.
The Queensland doctor, known only as Dr A, told an inquest on Tuesday that her former patient could not have had a psychotic episode at the time of the 2024 murders because his psychosis had previously exhibited as extreme disorganisation to the point he couldn’t put “two words together”.
