The dad and mom of the Bondi Junction mass killer have admitted their son was a ‘monster’ who hated girls as a result of he was ‘pissed off’ at being unable to discover a girlfriend.
Mother and father Michele and Andrew Cauchi opened about their ‘troubled…lovely boy’ Joel Cauchi, 40, who they stated they ‘liked a lot’ till he went on his murderous rampage.
Knife-obsessed Cauchi killed 5 girls and one man at Westfield Bondi Junction on Saturday when he ran by means of the buying centre hacking and stabbing at consumers.
On Monday, his dad and mom stated he was a recognized schizophrenic who had lived at house with them till he was 35 in Toowoomba, southern Queensland.Â
His life went off the rails when he tried to get off his anti-psychotic medicine as a result of ‘he wished to have a life’ – however as a substitute triggered his psychosis, stated his dad and mom.
‘How do you’re keen on a monster? Give start to them!’ tearful dad Andrew Cauchi stated.Â
Andrew Cauchi spoke to reporters exterior his Toowoomba house on Monday, two days after his son Joel stabbed six folks to loss of life at Westfield Bondi Junction
A devastated Michele Cauchi opened up about her son’s lengthy battle with psychological sickness
‘I liked my son. However he had a fascination with knives.
‘He had 5 – 6 military commando knives. He had an issue with girls, he could not get a girlfriend.’
Earlier, Mr Cauchi lashed out on the media pack exterior his house in an offended outburst earlier than his spouse Michele stepped in to defuse the state of affairs.
Mrs Cauchi stated that she was ‘so sorry’ for what her son had executed.
‘He was introduced up in love. He was a beautiful little one and he was within the care of his medical doctors for one thing like 18 years,’ she stated.
‘He took his medicine, Then he requested the physician if he might come down on it, and she or he did over a interval of quite a lot of years, very rigorously giving him warnings of what may occur.
‘And when he got here off, it was like his eyes had … it had all lifted from him and he wished to have a life.
‘So after dwelling at house till he was 35, he went to Brisbane.’
She added: ‘My coronary heart goes out to the folks our son has damage.
‘If he was in his proper thoughts, he can be completely devastated at what he has executed.
‘However he was clearly not in his proper thoughts. He one way or the other had been triggered into psychosis and he’d misplaced contact with actuality.
‘We’re simply unusual folks and introduced up our son as greatest we might.’
Andrew Cauchi (left) lashed out on the media earlier on Monday earlier than his spouse (proper) stepped in to defuse the state of affairs
Andrew and Michele Cauchi stated that they did all the things they might to assist their son Joel
Mrs Cauchi revealed her son had been ‘prime of his class’ and that ‘his lecturers liked him’.Â
‘He labored laborious. He had a variety of pals rising up,’ she recalled.
Her husband admitted that his son was awkward.
Requested if he knew why his son focused girls, Mr Cauchi stated, ‘as a result of he wished a girlfriend and he is bought no social expertise.
‘He was pissed off out of his mind.’
Mr Cauchi stated he had been ‘placing myself by means of hell’ watching footage of his son on the afternoon of the knife assaults.
‘However I am ready to do this as a result of I like my son and I wish to discover out what’s improper,’ he stated.
‘You don’t have any thought how lovely my boy is.’
Mr Cauchi stated that when his son was rising up ‘everyone stated what a beautiful son you’ve got bought’.
However he stated that Cauchi’s psychological well being points from his late teenagers and early 20s meant ‘you could not assist him’.
He added: ‘I did all the things in my energy to assist him. I would go right down to Brisbane, spend the day with them, take him to the Gold Coast, take him wherever he wished.
‘There’s nothing I can do or say that may carry it again.
‘My son, my son … I am loving a monster. He is a monster to me. He was a really sick boy.
‘Do you assume there’s something that would have been executed in another way along with his psychological sickness that would have helped?’
Andrew Cauchi (left) revealed to reporters that his son Joel was awkward and had no social expertise
Joel Cauchi lived at house along with his dad and mom till he was 35 and moved to Brisbane 5 years in the past
Mr Cauchi stated he had final seen his son by way of a selfie video that confirmed him trying joyful on Coogee Seaside on February 5, two months earlier than the knife assaults.
His son had stated on the video: ‘I simply wish to present you lovely Coogee Seaside,’ revealed his father.
‘Are you able to think about this boy… so joyful… in 5 weeks time or no matter it’s committing the atrocity?,’ Mr Cauchi stated.
‘That is what psychological sickness is. Psychological sickness is horrendous.’
Mr Cauchi stated that if mentally unwell folks even ‘simply increase a knife, they shoot them lifeless’ and he believed that solely made it worse.
‘You are encouraging the mentally unwell to do one thing loopy to allow them to get shot,’ he stated.
‘This crime ought to by no means have occurred. I am not blaming the police.
‘I took 5 US Military fight knives off him once I introduced him up from Brisbane.
‘I stated, “Look Joe, you are welcome to remain in my place. However you are not going to have these knives right here”.’
Mr Cauchi denied his son had ever threatened him however added: ‘He was actually offended. He known as the police and accused me of stealing his knives.’
