An knowledgeable criminologist has slammed the psychiatrist who took Joel Cauchi off his schizophrenia medicine – after which informed the inquest into the Bondi Junction Westfield bloodbath that her choice had nothing to do along with his lethal rampage.
Dr A handled Cauchi for eight years and informed an inquest this week that he was not psychotic when he stabbed six folks to dying.
She stated his actions had been ‘probably resulting from his sexual frustrations and hatred in direction of ladies’, though she backtracked the next day after her feedback sparked anger and disbelief.
Now prison psychologist Dr Tim Watson-Munro has blasted her feedback and stated she is ‘kidding herself’ about her ‘chat remedy’ therapy of Cauchi’s situation.
The Bondi Junction inquest has beforehand heard ‘clear and unanimous’ knowledgeable psychiatric proof that Cauchi was ‘floridly psychotic’ when he stabbed the 16 victims.
Dr Watson-Munro stated this was a tragedy for each the households of the victims and for the household of Cauchi.
He confused he didn’t want to personally assault Dr A, and was specializing in the skilled views she had expressed.
However he stated it was patently apparent that Cauchi was ‘drowning in psychosis’ when he launched his rampage.
The psychiatrist – Dr A (above) who took Joel Cauchi off his medicine initially informed the inquest he was not psychotic when he went on the Bondi Junction rampage however simply ‘hated ladies’
Joel Cauchi was ‘drowning in his demons … floridly psychotic’ and deteriorating mentally after ditching his antipsychotic medicine on a plan by his Queensland psychiatrist Dr A
Specialists stated Joel Cauchi was psychotic when he killed (clockwise, from high left) Ashlee Good, Faraz Tahir, Daybreak Singleton, Yixuan Cheng, Pakria Darchia and Jade Younger
Queensland-based Dr A, who has run a number of psychiatry companies, informed the Bondi Junction inquest that Cauchi was not psychotic and didn’t take medicine because it was ‘not crucial’.
Regardless of providing her ‘honest apologies’ and saying the bloodbath ‘devastated me personally’, Dr A insisted Cauchi couldn’t have had a psychotic episode on the time of the 2024 murders.
She stated his psychosis had beforehand exhibited as excessive disorganisation to the purpose he couldn’t put ‘two phrases collectively’, and he due to this fact would not have had the means to launch his assault.
‘That was nothing to do with psychosis,’ the psychiatrist informed the NSW Coroners Courtroom.
‘He couldn’t have organised himself to do what he did. I believe it might need been resulting from his frustrations, sexual frustration, pornography and hatred in direction of ladies.’
Legal psychologist Dr Tim Watson Munro stated different therapies reminiscent of ‘chat remedy’ had been for folks with angst or persona problems, not for these affected by schizophrenia
5 had been feminine customers at Westfield Bondi Junction and one a male safety guard.
Cauchi additionally injured 10 extra along with his US navy knife, earlier than he was confronted and shot useless by NSW Police Inspector Amy Scott.
Dr Watson-Munro confused he had by no means professionally examined Cauchi, however stated he took subject with Dr A’s declare that he did not want medicine.
Cuachi had been on highly effective antispychotic medicine – clozapine and aripiprazole – to deal with his schizophrenia for 18 years earlier than he stopped taking them utterly in 2020.
‘That’s all properly and good if the individual if not psychotic, but when somebody is floridly psychotic and out of contact and deteriorating?’ stated Dr Watson-Munro.
‘He was residing in his automobile, had misplaced contact along with his household … was completely dishevelled and shambolic.
‘He was clearly having points about not having a relationship. I’ve learn that therapy with antipsychotic medication has unintended effects such because the influence of libido.
‘Wanting to return off the medicine and have a go at life is a separate subject and his mother and father had been sufficiently involved.
‘However the proof would recommend he had a well-established and documented schizophrenic sickness.
‘And we find yourself with this monumental tragedy.’
Dr A was dismissive of Michele Cauchi’s issues that her son was relapsing right into a schizophrenic psychosis after he stopped taking all of his antipsychotic medicine underneath the steering of Dr A. Mrs Cauchi contacted Dr A’s clinic seven occasions to voice her fears however nothing was completed. Dr A informed the inquest Mrs Cauchi was ‘ a gorgeous, lovely mom however she isn’t a psychiatrist’
Cauchi was taking 550mg of clozapine for 10 years underneath the care of public well being docs when he transferred to Dr A’s personal clinic in February 2012.
Dr A has prior to now promoted a number of kinds of remedy to deal with sufferers, together with ‘dialectic remedy’ the place sufferers and therapists talk about their psychological well being.
Dr Watson-Munro dismissed these therapies as ‘chat remedy’ for folks with persona problems or nervousness, however not efficient for folks with schizophrenia.
The inquest heard Dr A labored with Cauchi to see if his signs, together with a scarcity of pleasure or motivation, had been brought on by his schizophrenia or clozapine’s unintended effects.
Dr A launched into a plan to decrease Cauchi’s clozapine dose, and his mom Michele agreed to help him by means of the gradual discount.
However in 2019, his mum turned involved Cauchi was struggling a schizophrenic relapse, after coming off his medicine, when he stated he was underneath Satanic management.
He additionally had excessive OCD, compulsively used pornography and his gait – his strolling fashion – had modified, she stated.
She contacted Dr A’s clinic seven occasions to voice her issues.
The inquest heard that at the beginning Dr A accepted Mrs Cauchi’s issues at ‘face worth’ and prescribed her son aripiprazole, however then the physician felt she had erred on the facet of security.
Joel Cauchi, armed with a 30cm Ka-Bar US Marine knife (above, in inexperienced) murdered six folks and injured an extra 10 in underneath three minutes inside Bondi Junction Westfield in April 2024
Cauchi’s rampage solely ended when he was shot and killed by NSW Police Inspector Amy Scott (above, with the deceased killer)
Cauchi didn’t take the medicine, and was not psychotic, Dr A claimed. She added that Mrs Cauchi was ‘a gorgeous, lovely mom however she isn’t a psychiatrist’.
Dr Watson-Munro was bowled over by the remark and informed Each day Mail Australia there have been ‘some actual pearlers’ in Dr A’s testimony.
On Tuesday, senior counsel aiding the inquest Dr Peggy Dwyer SC requested Dr A: ‘What would you say to the suggestion that you simply refuse to simply accept that Joel was psychotic on 13 April since you don’t need to settle for, your self, the failings in your care of Joel?’
Dr Dwyer prompt she might have made a telephone name.
‘You could possibly have completed that, you simply could not cost for it,’ Dr Dwyer stated, which the psychiatrist accepted.
‘It was conjecture on my half and I shouldn’t have speculated 4 years later after I accomplished his therapy,’ the psychiatrist stated.
Joel Cauchi’s father Andrew (pictured in his Toowoomba backyard) refuses responsible anybody however his son for the Bondi Junction murders
Legal psychologist Dr Tim Watson-Munro stated a medical system which let Joel Cauchi fall by means of the cracks when he deperately wanted therapy was to additionally blame for the lack of 7 lives, together with Cauchi’s (above)
Barrister Sue Chrysanthou SC, representing the households of Ashlee Good, Jade Younger and Daybreak Singleton, described Dr A’s testimony on Tuesday as ‘surprising proof to me and my shoppers’ and ‘opposite to all of the knowledgeable proof’.
Cauchi’s mother and father confused that there was just one one who wanted to apologise.
‘My son allow us to down,’ Mr Cauchi stated.
However Dr Watson-Munro stated it was not simply Cauchi responsible, however a medical system which let a severely mentally ailing man fall by means of the cracks when he deperately wanted therapy.
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