Inquest Finds Schizophrenia, Cannabis Likely Factors in Bondi Junction Stabbing Rampage

A coroner found Joel Cauchi’s psychiatrist did not adequately monitor his condition after taking him off medication.

Flowers are placed outside Westfield Shopping mall in honour of the victims in Bondi Junction, Australia, on April 16, 2024. Brendon Thorne/Getty Images

An inquest into the 2024 mass stabbing at the Westfield Bondi Junction shopping centre has found killer Joel Cauchi was schizophrenic, likely psychotic, and had been smoking cannabis for days before he stabbed six people to death and injured 10 others.

Dawn Singleton, 25, Ashlee Good, 38, Jade Young, 47, Pikria Darchia, 55, Yixuan Cheng, 27 and Faraz Tahir, 30, were killed by Cauchi in April 2024.