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The speculation that Westfield Bondi Junction knifeman Joel Cauchi was particularly focusing on ladies in his stabbing spree on the purchasing centre has been dismissed by police.
Six folks – 5 ladies and one male safety guard – had been killed when 40-year-old Cauchi attacked folks with a 30cm knife on April 13.
A nine-month-old child woman was one among 12 others that had been stabbed earlier than the knifeman was shot useless by NSW Police Inspector Amy Scott.
NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb mentioned after the gender sample of the assault was clear.
‘It is apparent to me… The offender targeted on ladies and averted the boys,’ Commissioner Webb advised the ABC on April 15.
Nonetheless, a month on from the assault, there’s a debate inside NSW Police about that principle.
One senior police supply was skeptical, declaring that Cauchi additionally stabbed males however not fatally.
Police are not satisfied Bondi Junction Westfield knifeman Joel Cauchi (pictured) was focusing on ladies when he launched into a violent stabbing spree
Victims pictured L-R prime row: Yixuan Cheng, 27, Ashlee Good, 38, and Pikria Darchia, 55. Pictured L-R backside row: Jade Younger, 47, Daybreak Singleton, 25, and Faraz Tahir, 30.
‘Do I believe he was focusing on ladies? No, I do not. He stabbed three males and a child, he was simply working round stabbing folks,’ the supply advised the Each day Telegraph.
These killed within the assault had been new mom Ashlee Good, 38, bride-to-be Daybreak Singleton, 25, safety guard Faraz Ahmed Tahir, 30, architect Jade Younger, 47, artist Pikria Darchia, 55, and economics pupil Yixuan Cheng, 27.
Nonetheless one other police supply beforehand advised the Each day Telegraph that investigators consider Cauchi was ‘positively focusing on ladies’.
The supply mentioned police had seen in depth footage of Cauchi’s actions all through the purchasing centre and noticed him choosing his victims.
‘I do not suppose there’s another manner to take a look at it,’ the supply mentioned.
‘You possibly can see on the footage he walks previous different folks. He simply retains shifting previous them after which assaults a girl.’
Cauchi, a schizophrenic from Queensland, had moved to Sydney simply weeks earlier than the assault and had had no mounted deal with on the time.
He was recognized with schizophrenia as a teen and his dad and mom mentioned he had stopped taking his remedy which had triggered his psychosis.
Cauchi’s father Andrew had instructed his son had focused ladies on the purchasing centre as a result of he had needed a girlfriend.
Cauchi’s father Andrew beforehand instructed his son (pictured) had focused ladies on the purchasing centre as a result of he had needed a girlfriend
Simply days after the assault, NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb (pictured) mentioned it was ‘apparent’ to her that Cauchi had been focusing on ladies buyers
‘He needed a girlfriend and he is bought no social expertise and he was pissed off out of his mind,’ Anthony advised A Present Affair.
Cauchi had lived at house together with his dad and mom in Toowoomba till he was 35.
His father recalled discovering 5 giant US Military fight knives in his bag when he visited the house in 2023, which he shortly confiscated.
‘I mentioned, “Look, Joel, you are welcome to remain at my place however you are not going to have these knives right here”,’ Andrew mentioned.
‘I took them off him and it was hell, , actually hell … he went psychological.’
Podcaster Abbie Chatfield mentioned she believed the objectification of girls and Australia’s dire psychological well being system had been each causes of the assault.
‘This violence does not begin from nowhere. This begins from folks talking about ladies as if they’re objects, repeatedly,’ she mentioned.
‘That objectification of girls permits the dehumanisation of girls, and that enables males to simply go down a slippery slope in the direction of violence.
‘Whether or not that is violence within the house, home violence, verbal abuse, catcalling, sexual harassments, sexual assault, rape, homicide, mass homicide.’
