Queensland police officers want “confusing” legislation surrounding when they can legally detain a person for a mental health assessment rewritten, the Bondi Junction stabbing inquest has heard.
Joel Cauchi assaulted his father after he confiscated his knives during a 2023 dispute at the family home. But police could not get a mental health check because he was not an ‘immediate’ suicide risk.
Top lawyers are treading carefully through the Bondi stabbing inquest, determined not to further traumatise families of the victims in their bid to uncover the truth. PLUS: Readers send messages of thanks to hero cop Amy Scott.
Never-seen-before footage has been released of the day a hero cop ended Joel Cauchi’s deadly rampage after he stabbed six people to death inside Westfield Bondi Junction. SEE THE FULL VIDEO
A highly decorated NSW paramedic feared patients were dying inside Westfield Bondi Junction while he was forced to wait outside, the inquest into the stabbing attack at the shopping centre heard on Day 3.
Critical care paramedic Chris Wilkinson has criticised the use of a ‘hot zone’ as frustrated ambos were told to leave the shopping centre where they had treated patients in the wake of the Bondi Junction stabbings.
Hero police inspector Amy Scott had accepted her life might be over in a matter of minutes when she ran into Westfield Bondi Junction to stop a frenzied killer.
Inspector Amy Scott has outlined the moments before she shot the Bondi Junction mass killer dead, and the words from the two bollard-wielding heroes who were backing her up.
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Joel Cauchi was “lost” to flailing mental health systems in two states – while Googling serial killers online and writing a note to “call knife sharpener”, Day 1 of the inquest into his deadly stabbing rampage in which he killed six people heard.
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