Police say 40-year-old was an itinerant who moved to NSW last month and had a history of mental illness
Bondi Junction attacker Joel Cauchi during the mass stabbing in the Westfield shopping centre, and ordering lunch three hours earlier at Saigon Noodle in the Oxford Street mall.Bondi Junction attacker Joel Cauchi during the mass stabbing in the Westfield shopping centre, and ordering lunch three hours earlier at Saigon Noodle in the Oxford Street mall.
Cauchi was a member of a number of Facebook groups related to social activities throughout Sydney. He had posted in one group as early as last week, wanting to meet others for a surf at Lowe said the family was cooperating with investigations and had released a statement expressing condolences to the families and friends of victims involved in the tragedy.
“He has been in contact with the police, primarily in the last four to five years,” Lowe said. “During that contact we are aware here that this individual has suffered from mental health.”The last interaction Queensland police had with Cauchi was in December 2023, when he was street checked on the Gold Coast.
He rented a “very small” storage unit in Sydney’s inner city which Guardian Australia understands was only about one cubic metre in size. Lowe said he had moved around Brisbane to Kangaroo Point and Carina, then back to his family’s residence – understood to be in Rockville, near Toowoomba – over the past few years.The owner of a knife-sharpening business in Queensland, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told Guardian Australia that Cauchi was an “odd” and “strange” guy.“Which I thought was weird,” the owner said. “He wasn’t a chef or a butcher.
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