Psychiatrist who treated Joel Cauchi four years before Westfield killings gives tearful apology

'No psychiatrist in the world would wish on themselves for this trauma to happen,' the doctor told an inquest.
Australian Associated Press
Joel Cauchi being pulled over by Queensland Police for driving erratically through Brisbane in September 2021. Photo: Queensland Police Service

A psychiatrist who stopped Joel Cauchi’s medication four years before he killed six shoppers has made a tearful apology to the victims and their families.

Mr Cauchi, 40, had psychotic symptoms in April last year when he fatally stabbed six people at Sydney’s Westfield Bondi Junction and injured 10 others.