The stories that shaped the weekend: Bondi Junction stabbings, The Block rocked

The horrific stabbing attack at Westfield Bondi Junction dominated the weekend’s news. Here’s what we know.

Details are still emerging from the horrific Westfield Bondi Junction mass stabbing, which dominated the weekend’s news.

The tragic news that six people were senselessly murdered and dozens more injured – including a nine-month-old baby – while shopping at the popular mall has shocked and saddened Australia.

The killer, 40-year-old Joel Cauchi, was shot dead by lone police officer, Amy Scott.

Read the latest:

• Bondi monster’s one crazed objective: find and kill women
• UPDATE: Westfield remains closed, killer’s parents emerge
• Sixth Bondi Westfield massacre victim named

Read more on the incident by clicking on the tiles below.

These are the stories from the Herald Sun newsroom that made headlines across the weekend.

1. The Block rocked

The Block hosts Shelley Craft and Scott Cam. Picture: Channel 9

Drama has engulfed the new season of The Block with a duo quitting the show just weeks into filming on Phillip Island.

It’s understood one of the five teams taking part quit the show within the past fortnight, four weeks into the tight and unforgiving filming schedule, causing upheaval for the production.

This isn’t the first time the show has lost a team, although in the past, if a team quit it was much earlier in the filming schedule that in this most recent case.

2. Ex-Kangaroo’s daughter killed in Bondi massacre

Bondi Westfield stabbing victim Ash Good. Picture: Supplied

The brave mother who threw her injured baby into the arms of strangers after being attacked in the horror Bondi Junction stabbing was the daughter of former North Melbourne player and club director Kerry Good.

Among the six innocent people killed by 40-year-old Joel Cauchi was first-time mother Ashlee Good, an osteopath who was originally from Melbourne.

She was extremely well known in the Melbourne community and the second eldest child of Kerry Good, who played for North Melbourne in the VFL during the 1970s and 1980s.

3. Carl Ditterich charged with sexual offences

Carl Ditterich has been charged with multiple offences.

Carl Ditterich has been charged with historic child sex offences.

The 78-year-old former St Kilda and Melbourne Football Club player is facing multiple charges, including three counts of indecent assault and one count of gross indecency in the presence of a child under the age of 16.

It is alleged Mr Ditterich assaulted the child in Heatherton in Melbourne’s southeast in August 1985.

4. Mick Murphy breaks down as police resume search for Sam Murphy

Mick and Jess Murphy. Picture: Nicki Connolly

Samantha Murphy’s husband broke down in tears as he spoke of the loss of his “kind, caring, loyal” wife.

Speaking to media on Friday, Mick Murphy described the first moment he realised something was wrong when his wife failed to answer her phone.

“I’d tried to give her a call and there was no answer on the phone, it went straight to message bank, and that’s when I thought, that’s odd because she has her phone,” he said.

Speciality cadaver dogs that can sniff out human remains were used for the first time on Thursday since Ms Murphy went missing more than two months ago.

5. Second man charged over ‘Capable’s’ murder

Rabii Zahabe. Picture: Instagram

A second man has been charged with the murder of Melbourne gangland figure Gavin “Capable” Preston.

Rabii Zahabe, 24, from Sydney was expected to appear before a New South Wales court on Thursday over the murder of Preston in September last year.

Preston, 50, was shot in a hail of 10 bullets as he sat outside busy Sweet Lulu’s Cafe on Old Calder Highway in Keilor at 10.20am on September 9.