The mother and father of the Bondi Junction mass killer have admitted their son was a ‘monster’ who hated girls as a result of he was ‘annoyed’ at being unable to discover a girlfriend.
Mother and father Michele and Andrew Cauchi opened about their ‘troubled…stunning boy’ Joel Cauchi, 40, who they stated they ‘beloved 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 way of the procuring centre hacking and stabbing at buyers.
On Monday, his mother and father stated he was a recognized schizophrenic who had lived at dwelling with them till he was 35 in Toowoomba, southern Queensland.
His life went off the rails when he tried to get off his anti-psychotic remedy as a result of ‘he wished to have a life’ – however as an alternative triggered his psychosis, stated his mother and father.
‘How do you’re keen on a monster? Give delivery to them!’ tearful dad Andrew Cauchi stated.
Andrew Cauchi spoke to reporters exterior his Toowoomba dwelling on Monday, two days after his son Joel stabbed six individuals to loss of life at Westfield Bondi Junction
A devastated Michele Cauchi opened up about her son’s lengthy battle with psychological sickness
‘I beloved 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 dwelling in an offended outburst earlier than his spouse Michele stepped in to defuse the scenario.
Mrs Cauchi stated that she was ‘so sorry’ for what her son had completed.
‘He was introduced up in love. He was a beautiful youngster and he was within the care of his docs for one thing like 18 years,’ she stated.
‘He took his remedy, Then he requested the physician if he may come down on it, and he or she did over a interval of numerous 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 residing at dwelling till he was 35, he went to Brisbane.’
She added: ‘My coronary heart goes out to the individuals our son has damage.
‘If he was in his proper thoughts, he can be completely devastated at what he has completed.
‘However he was clearly not in his proper thoughts. He by some means had been triggered into psychosis and he’d misplaced contact with actuality.
‘We’re simply strange individuals and introduced up our son as greatest we may.’
Andrew Cauchi (left) lashed out on the media earlier on Monday earlier than his spouse (proper) stepped in to defuse the scenario
Andrew and Michele Cauchi stated that they did the whole lot they might to assist their son Joel
Mrs Cauchi revealed her son had been ‘high of his class’ and that ‘his academics beloved him’.
‘He labored laborious. He had lots of associates rising up,’ she recalled.
Her husband admitted that his son was awkward.
Mr Cauchi stated his son focused girls within the ruthless assault ‘as a result of he wished a girlfriend and he is bought no social abilities.
‘He was annoyed out of his mind.’
Mr Cauchi stated he had been ‘placing myself by way 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 incorrect,’ he stated.
‘You haven’t any concept how stunning my boy is.’
Mr Cauchi stated that when his son was rising up ‘everyone stated what a beautiful son you have 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 the whole lot 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 suppose there’s something that might have been completed in a different way along with his psychological sickness that might have helped?’
Andrew Cauchi (left) revealed to reporters that his son Joel was awkward and had no social abilities
Joel Cauchi lived at dwelling along with his mother and father till he was 35 and moved to Brisbane 5 years in the past
Mr Cauchi stated he had final seen his son through 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 stunning 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 individuals even ‘simply elevate 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.’
