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5 days ago | 
theguardian.com | Jordyn Beazley
Joel Cauchi stands on the nature strip outside his parents’ tidy Queenslander home in Toowoomba, waiting for the police. On this day in January 2023, Cauchi is friendly and calm.
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6 days ago | 
ca.news.yahoo.com | Jordyn Beazley
Security guard in charge of mall’s CCTV was ‘not getting better’ at her job in lead-up to attack, Bondi stabbing inquest hearsThe court heard the guard twice incorrectly answered a question about security’s two main objectives when facing an active armed offender: get people to safety and send information to the police.
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1 week ago | 
aol.co.uk | Jordyn Beazley
Security guards have been so heavily traumatised by Joel Cauchi’s fatal mass stabbing attack at Westfield Bondi Junction that many have been unable to return to work, an inquest has heard. A senior security guard working at the popular shopping centre the day Cauchi killed six people described harrowing scenes of panic and confusion as Cauchi, armed with a 30cm knife, roamed the mall. “Not everyone understands the fear and chaos we faced,” he told the inquest into the April 2024 stabbings.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Daisy Dumas |Jordyn Beazley
A centuries-old legal presumption that children aged between 10 and 14 don’t understand the difference between right and wrong is to be reviewed after New South Wales youth criminal conviction rates tumbled fivefold. The NSW attorney general’s office said the review will consider how the principle of doli incapax – Latin for “incapable of evil” – is applied in criminal proceedings, its impact on intervention, possible improvements and a framework for legislation.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Jordyn Beazley
A security guard in charge of emergency response the day Joel Cauchi fatally stabbed six people inside a Bondi shopping centre has told an inquest that communication difficulties caused a delay in warning customers about the incident. The coronial inquest heard that a public emergency announcement was not issued until 17 minutes after Cauchi killed his sixth and last victim, and 14 minutes after a police officer had already shot him dead, an inquest has heard.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Jordyn Beazley
A Queensland police officer has told a coronial inquest that a lack of resources explains why her colleague overlooked an email requesting mental health support for Joel Cauchi, a year before he stabbed six people to death in Sydney’s Bondi Junction. The inquest on Monday heard from an officer who was acting as the police force’s only mental health officer for a district serving 220,000 residents when he received an email from another officer asking him to follow up with the Cauchi family.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Jordyn Beazley
Joel Cauchi called the police to his parents’ home more than a year before he stabbed and killed six people at Bondi Junction, to complain that his father had taken away his knives due to concerns about his mental health, an inquest has been told. Body-worn camera footage played at the coronial inquest in Sydney on Monday showed an officer telling her colleague, after speaking to Cauchi’s mother, that “Mum just wants him to get help”.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Jordyn Beazley
Investigative journalist Nick McKenzie has denied in a Sydney court that he saw privileged communications between Ben Roberts-Smith and his lawyers during the proceedings of the war veteran’s failed defamation case against him and Nine. The court also heard a “secret” recording where McKenzie allegedly told a witness in the defamation proceedings that Roberts-Smith’s ex-wife, Emma Roberts, and her friend Danielle Scott were “actively briefing us on his legal strategy in respect of you”.
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1 week ago | 
ca.news.yahoo.com | Jordyn Beazley
Ben Roberts-Smith outside the federal court in Sydney in 2024. His lawyers are arguing that his unsuccessful defamation case should be retried. Ben Roberts-Smith outside the federal court in Sydney in 2024. His lawyers are arguing that his unsuccessful defamation case should be retried.
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Jordyn Beazley
A “recording made in secret” has been ruled admissible in Ben Roberts-Smith’s bid to reopen his appeal for his unsuccessful defamation case against Nine newspapers – despite Nine’s lawyers arguing the audio should be treated with “great caution”. The recording is a key piece of evidence, according to the decorated war veteran’s legal team, who claimed the 85-second audio clip contained an admission by investigative journalist Nick McKenzie of a “serious nature”.
