Bondi stabber allegedly anxious about mental health before attack

The inquest into the Bondi Junction stabbing rampage has heard from nurses who treated Joel Cauchi for his declining mental health, prior to the deadly attack.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Joel Cauchi was a diagnosed schizophrenic for almost fifteen years
when he unleashed his terror. Today, decades of mental health
care was put under the microscope. Cauci was prescribed the
drug clouseipine for treatment resistant schizophrenia, but after experiencing side effects,
he progressively lowered his dose while being monitored closely until

(00:25):
June twenty eighteen, when he stopped taking all medication today
to experience mental health nurses testified that was unusual. I
had seen some patients weaned off closeipine, but it was
replaced with another antipsychotic medication. A year after stopping his medication,
Couchi's mother repeatedly contacted the clinic, concerned her son's mental

(00:48):
health was getting worse, but he was still discharged to
his GP's care when he moved to Brisbane. The inquest heard.
As Joel Couchi's mental health began to decline, he was
left to fall through cracks in the system, going from
weekly or monthly follow ups to effectively no support almost overnight.

(01:09):
When one nurse learned Cauchi was behind the April thirteen attack,
she was physically sick. I looked it up then I
vomited when I saw it was him. The inquest. We'll
hear from Cauchy's long term psychiatrist tomorrow. Taylor aken seven
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