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Speaker 1: Today's biggest News from The Australian Unclaire Harvey with the

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Speaker 1: Front's afternoon headlines. It was a stabbing rampage that shook

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Speaker 1: Australia in twenty twenty four. Joel Couchy, in an acute psychosis,

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Speaker 1: stabbed to death six people in Bondi Junction, Westfield shopping

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Speaker 1: mall in Sydney and injured another ten, including a baby.

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Speaker 1: Couchy was shot dead at the scene by Amy Scott,

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Speaker 1: a police inspector, who sprinted towards him and ended the

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Speaker 1: carnage after just five and a half minutes. Over the

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Speaker 1: past year, a coronial inquest has heard about the circumstances

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Speaker 1: of the day and the time leading up when Couchi

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Speaker 1: was sleeping rough and experiencing severe mental health problems. On Thursday,

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Speaker 1: Amy Scott, who is now fighting an aggressive form of

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Speaker 1: breast cancer and was wearing a brightly colored headscarf, appeared

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Speaker 1: at the Coroner's Court in Sydney to hear the recommendations

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Speaker 1: by Coroner Teresa O'Sullivan. Also there were the families of

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Speaker 1: Couchi's victims, shoppers Dawn Singleton, Yijuan Cheng, Ashley Good, Jade

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Speaker 1: Young and Picreadacia plus security guard faraz akhmed Tahir, who

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Speaker 1: was on his first day of work at the mall.

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Speaker 1: O'Sullivan said she would refer j Old Couchi's psychiatrist, doctor

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Speaker 1: Andrea Boroslovak, to the Queensland Health onwardsman O'Sullivan found the

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Speaker 1: doctor failed to identify the risk posed by Couci as

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Speaker 1: he relapsed into psychosis at the end of twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 1: She had been treating Cauchi for schizophrenia, which had been

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Speaker 1: resistant to treatment. The coroner said Couci had exemplary compassionate

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Speaker 1: treatment from twenty twelve to twenty nineteen. On the day

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Speaker 1: of the massacre, he was homeless and unmedicated, having been

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Speaker 1: taken off his drugs by the doctor. His mother reported

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Speaker 1: he may have been hearing voices and was making notes,

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Speaker 1: believing he was under Satanic control. The doctor initially gave

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Speaker 1: him a prescription for medications, but then decided the symptoms

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Speaker 1: could be a result of concern he may have contracted

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Speaker 1: a sexually transmitted infection. The coroner said it was a

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Speaker 1: major failing that the doctor didn't believe he was experiencing

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Speaker 1: a relapse. O'Sullivan said doctor Boroslovak ultimately failed to take

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Speaker 1: more proactive action or to recognize the seriousness of the situation.

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Speaker 1: She said. The doctor wrote a wholly unsatisfactory letter to

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Speaker 1: Couci's general practitioner. During the inquest, doctor Boroslovak initially told

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Speaker 1: the court she believed Couci was not experiencing psychosis, but

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Speaker 1: was fueled by hatred towards women and sexual frustration. She

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Speaker 1: later withdrew those suggestions. An expert psychiatric panel who provided

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Speaker 1: a submission to the inquest said Couci was suffering an

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Speaker 1: acute episode of psychosis. The coroner said the psychiatrist's failings

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Speaker 1: could not be seen as a major reason for the massacre,

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Speaker 1: but that it was part of a matrix and only

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Speaker 1: one of the factors that led to the deaths. The

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Speaker 1: findings of the inquest are detailed and wide ranging, and

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Speaker 1: we're covering them live right now at the Australian dot

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Speaker 1: com dot au plus. Come back to the front first

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Speaker 1: thing in the morning for a story that's blowing up

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Speaker 1: all over the world, the latest dump of the Epstein

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Speaker 1: files and what they reveal about Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, his

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Speaker 1: ex wife, Sarah Ferguson and UK politician Peter Mandelson, who's

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Speaker 1: now being investigated by police and is causing a nightmare

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Speaker 1: for British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. That story right here

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Speaker 1: Friday morning,