While the nation continues to reel following a stabbing massacre at Westfield Bondi Junction over the weekend, two victims have now been discharged from hospital.
Five women and one man were murdered in the stabbing on Saturday afternoon at Bondi Junction Westfield, with another dozen people injured — including a baby girl whose mother died in the attack.
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The killer, 40-year-old Queensland man Joel Cauchi, was shot dead by police at the scene, seemingly singling out women in the country’s worst massacre in recent years.
Six people including the baby girl remain in Sydney hospitals.
NSW Health Minister Ryan Park said the condition of the baby girl had improved, with the hospital hoping to move her from the ICU over the next few days.
As a floral tribute to the victims grew at Bondi Junction, Premier Chris Minns said a special coronial inquiry would examine the circumstances of Cauchi’s “horrifying, vile act”.
The inquiry, bolstered by up to $18 million in extra funding, would look at the police response, as well as the killer’s interactions with NSW and Queensland agencies.
Minns said the killer’s motive might never be known, but that it was “the truth of the matter” that many women were targeted in the attack, which could pave the way for security guards in shopping centres to be armed.
The killer’s father Andrew Cauchi said his son, with whom he had periodic contact, battled mental health issues, such as schizophrenia, for decades.
“I’m loving a monster. To you, he’s a monster but to me, he was a very sick boy,” Cauchi said outside his home in the regional Queensland city of Toowoomba.
“This is so horrendous I can’t even explain it. I’m just devastated, I love my son.”
Hundreds of people were forced to flee the east Sydney shopping centre during the attack that claimed the life of 38-year-old osteopath Ashlee Good and Dawn Singleton, 25, the daughter of high-profile businessman John Singleton.
Architect Jade Young, 47, artist and designer Pikria Darchia, 55, and 27-year-old Chinese student Yixuan Cheng were also murdered.
Security guard Faraz Tahir, 30, a Pakistani refugee, was the only man killed.
– With AAP
