Australian police say Sydney attacker may have targeted women
The knifeman who rampaged through a crowded Sydney shopping mall on Saturday killing six and gravely wounding a baby girl was a lone drifter obsessed with knives. Police on Sunday identified Joel Cauchi, an itinerant with a long history of mental instability as the knife-wielding attacker who killed five women and one man after he entered the crowded Westfield shopping centre in Bondi Junction in Sydney’s wealthy east on Saturday. Cauchi, 40, from Toowoomba, 78 miles west of Brisbane, had moved to Sydney recently, renting a storage unit in the inner city. Described by acquaintances as a loner, a week ago he posted on a Facebook group seeking a surfing companion to join him for outings at Bondi Beach. Read the best of our journalism: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/ Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=timesonlinevideo Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/timesandsundaytimes/ Find us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thetimes Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetimes/
