‘Highly Distressing’: Media Outlet Names Wrong Person as Bondi Knife Attacker

‘What’s even more disappointing to me is a major news network doing this using my name without waiting for a statement from the police to verify this.’

Police keep watch in front of the Westfield Bondi Junction shopping mall after a stabbing incident in Sydney on April 13, 2024. The number of people killed by a knife-wielding assailant in a Sydney shopping centre on April 13 has climbed to six, police said. (Photo by David GRAY / AFP) Photo by DAVID GRAY/AFP via Getty Images

An innocent university student, who was misidentified as the killer behind the brutal stabbing rampage at a Sydney shopping mall, has hit out at those who spread the misinformation, including the Seven Network.

From about 8:30 p.m. on April 13, Ben Cohen, a 20-year-old computing science student at the University of Technology Sydney, was wrongly named as the killer on social media, with his photo going viral online.