Should a psychiatrist be referred to AHPRA for becoming “belligerent” as she is grilled over her management of a patient who years later went on to commit a horrible crime?

It is a question a coroner has been left to grapple with, as the inquest into the fatal stabbing of six people at Westfield Bondi Junction in Sydney last year wraps up.

They died at the hands of Joel Cauchi in a killing rampage which came to an end only when he was shot dead by a police officer.

Their families want his one-time psychiatrist to be investigated over her her care and her suggestion during the inquest that her former patient was not psychotic at the time.