Joel Cauchi, 40, killed six people and injured 10 others at Sydney’s Bondi Junction Westfield in April 2024 before being shot dead by police.

His regular Queensland GP Richard Grundy testified at an inquest into the tragedy today.

In a one-hour appointment held in Brisbane during January 2021, Cauchi did not acknowledge experiencing any hallucinations or psychotic symptoms, with the doctor observing that his mood seemed “stable.”

He told the court he had sought collateral information from private and public health systems in Toowoomba to confirm what he had been told.

He was unable to get details from Cauchi’s mother, saying he had only consented that they be contacted in an emergency.

The doctor admitted that inconsistencies he was told about the length of time Cauchi had taken antipsychotics could have been a “red flag”.

A medical report was eventually supplied to Queensland Police which eventually provided Cauchi with a statement of eligibility to get a gun licence.

However, he did not follow through with obtaining the licence itself.

Cauchi was transferred from the public to private health sectors in 2012 when he formed a plan with his psychiatrist to decrease his medication.

By the middle of 2019, Cauchi had discontinued his antipsychotic medication, and following his relocation to Brisbane in early 2020, he lost contact with the mental health services.

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